Generate CRUD from JPA entities

Question

I have a web application developed with spring mvc and for the persistence I use JPA (Hibernate implementation) and I woluld like to add a CRUD GUI to that application.

Do you know some framework that allow me to generate in my project the CRUD GUI from the JPA entities?

Thanks in advance for your help

Answer 1

You might want to have a look at grails, unfortunately this means switching language and whole stack. In Java land there is spring-roo. Finally check out spring-data umbrella of projects, specifically spring-data-jpa for rapid DAO generation and spring-data-rest for generating REST interfaces.

Once you have a REST interface, consider jqgrid JavaScript library for integrated listing/paging/full CRUD based on REST AJAX API. See my article and sources for example.