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Nasdanika Foundation Server (NFS) is a collection of OSGi/Equinox bundles providing a full stack for building Java Web applications which operate on domain models residing in CDO repositories. NFS is a framework for Domain-Driven Web development. It leverages orthogonal persistence provided by CDO, ECORE model metadata and annotations to route HTTP requests to repository objects' operations and to dynamically generate JavaScript modules facading repository objects. It also provides a documentation route which makes model documentation easily accessible through a web browser.
NFS-based applications are built with Maven/Tycho and output of the build is an Eclipse product - executable and ready for deployment.
Working on an NFS-based application developers stay focused on the domain instead of infrastructure plumbing - it reduces mental overload and context switching, facilitates rapid experimentation and model evolution, and shortens the cycle between an idea and usable software.
In NSF-based applications Web UI is associated with model elements instead of "traditional" way of data being associated with UI through query parameters or path elements. The difference is rather profound! The "traditional" way conceptually corresponds to functional programming - application is a bunch of functions to which data is passed as parameters. The NSF approach corresponds to object-oriented programming - model elements "own" web behavior. In particular it allows to build polymorphic user interfaces, e.g. checking and credit cards account may have the same URL which renders a list of transactions, but rendering might be different.
The value of the NFS is demonstrated through the user stories of the innovator persona Pablo in which he uses NFS to help him to achieve his goals.
- Watch videos:
- Application Workspace Wizard- 6 minutes.
- Create and document a model - 11 minutes.
- Add web functionality by creating a route operation - 10 minutes.
- Convert the application into a single page Bootstrap/Backbone router application with 3 route operations - 11 minutes.
- Install Nasdanika Application Workspace Wizard:
- Using Eclipse Marketplace Client.
- By dragging this button
to your running Eclipse workspace.
- Or install from
http://www.nasdanika.org/server/repository.
- Optionally open Eclipse help and read the Wizard documentation describing how to generate application projects.
- Generate application projects.
- Start the application, open documentation in a web browser.
- Create models.
- Document models.
- Add web functionality by creating route operations.
GitHub repository of the demo application used in the videos
The bulk of the documentation is available through the documentation route of a NFS-based application, or through the Nasdanika Information Center, which is a NFS-based application.
Online documentation:
- Architecture
- WebTest - a Web UI automated testing and documentation generation framework built on Selenium WebDriver and JUnit. Take a look at a sample report.
- Server-side Java Development for Innovators - online book, work in progress.
- p2 repository -
http://www.nasdanika.org/server/repository - API Docs
- Archived repository