Features

Services and architecture features:

• MVC component architecture, provided through JSF.
• User and authentication handling, provided by JSF and Silhouette-specific code.
• Data access services (data access object DAO design pattern) providing a database-neutral persistent-data interface layer, implemented using Hibernate. Databases supported by Hibernate include
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000
  • PostgreSQL
  • DB2
  • Sybase.
• No SQL necessary (unless you want to) by using Hibernate XDoclet annotation-based POJO (Plain Old Java Object) markup for persistence.
• HttpUnit integration tests implemented.
• Graphing services, for producing charts such as line and pie charts. The graphing services are implemented using JFreeChart, and Cewolf as the JSP/Servlet interface layer.
• Integrated page-level help built in.
• Strings are externalized in resource files, making internationalization trivial.
• Extensive use of CSS stylesheets, to simplify look and feel customization.
• Menus which highlight when the corresponding page is viewed.
• Generic log file viewer.
• Generic database create/update/delete functionality by just pointing a JDBC connection string at an existing database.
• Integrated Ant-based build system.
• Integrated Javadoc and tag library documentation generation.
• Clean, modern, simple, scalable Java and JSP code!