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Section 5. xPetstore

This tutorial just scratches the surface

I have only scratched the surface of what you can do with XDoclet and Ant. EJB

technology alone has a dizzying array of features and support. XDoclet provides you

with powerful tools in your toolbox. XDoclet modules make Web development easier.

Ant is powerful tool, and XDoclet is an example how Ant can be extended to simplify

Web development. I provided a small glimpse of Ant. For some this is enough; for

others, a more detailed description is in order.

See the resource section for other examples of using XDoclet.

This tutorial just scratches the surface of things you can do, the xPetstore example

gives much more detail, but still does not cover it all.

xPetstore

xPetstore

re implements Sun s Microsystem PetStore using XDoclet. It is an excellent

source for information on how to use XDoclet with great examples. The xPetstore

demonstrates the use of Ant and XDoclet to build WODRA (Write Once, Deploy and

Run Anywhere) J2EE applications. There are currently two version of xPetsore.

The first version of xPetstore is a pure J2EE version that uses EJB components

(CMPCMR 2.0), JSP, Struts, and Sitemesh. The second version of xPetstore is a

Servlet based solution that uses Velocity, WebWork, Sitemesh, POJO, and Hibernate.

XDoclet provides custom handlers, templates, and Ant tasks to do for Struts,

WebWork, and Hibernate what this tutorial showed XDoclet can do for EJB, Custom

Tags, and Servlets. The xPetstore shows how to develop EJB (CMP CMR 2.0),

Custom Tags (TagLib), JSP, Struts, WebWork, Servlet Filters, Hibernate with XDoclet.

Check out the xPetstore before you start using XDoclet on your project.

xPestore has been deployed and tested on the following platforms:

Operating system:

Linux

Windows

Application Servers:

JBoss 3.x

WebLogic 7.x

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