Appendix A. Rapid Development Using JBoss Forge

In the appendix of this book, we will give you an overview of JBoss Forge, which is a powerful, rapid application development (aimed at Java EE 6) and project comprehension tool. With Forge, you can start a new project from scratch and generate the skeleton for your application just with a few commands. However, it can also be used for incremental enhancements for your existing projects using extra plugins.

Installing Forge

In order to install Forge, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Download and unzip Forge from http://forge.jboss.org/ into a folder on your hard disk; this folder will be your FORGE_HOME.
  2. Add FORGE_HOME/bin to your path (Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX).

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