Introduction and first steps

In this tutorial we will create a simple web application that allows to manage some data and users through a web browse. The result application will content a database with a set of software risks and registered attacks against companies exploiting these risks.

This tutorial is written in Linux so if you are using Windows type roma instead of ./roma.sh.

First of all we must create a project skeleton from the roma console. The steps are the following:

Create a web project – With this step the basic skeleton of a web application is created. This web application can be imported from Eclipse and includes an ant's file build.xml to compile it.

./roma.sh create web software-risks gesfor.roma.swrisks /home/romaapps/

Add Echo2 view – Echo is a platform for building web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients. It will provide us functionality to create web interfaces

./roma.sh add view-echo2

Add persistence aspect – The JPOX module provides transparent persistence of java objects

./roma.sh add persistence-jpox

Add a web server – We will use Jetty server which is entirely developed in java.

./roma.sh add web-jetty

Last Update: 2008-08-18