Quicksilver - REST, MVC, AOP in 26 lines of code, 6 annotations and 0 xml.

You read it right. Let's jump right into how the Quicksilver Framework accomplishes this.

Here is the view - getStuff.cfm

And finally, the results when run:

So, how did we just implement MVC?

STEP 1 - Annotate your component with @viewRoot. This is where all your views are stored.
STEP 2 -  Map the uri and http method to your url. You can optionally use the @returnTypeName annotation so when defined, it's value is mapped to the methods return and will be available in the request scope of your view Look at the getStuff.cfm screen cap above..
STEP 3, non-step - Sit back and relax. Watch the goodness of convention over configuration. QS will look in your @viewRoot for a directory named after the controller, in this case SampleService. Then within that directory look for a file whose name matches the method being mapped.


How did we implement AOP?

STEP 1 - Annotate your cross cutting method with @aspect and give it a name.
STEP 2 - Decorate the target method with @preAspects and/or @postAspects annotations. A comma separated list of the aspect names.


So when getStuff() was run, Quicksilver first ran the aspect addRandomStuff(). All in 2, dos, ni steps. Cool eh?


How did we implement REST?

NO STEPS! - You already did when you annotated for MVC.Proof? Lets hit that URL again but leverage Quicksilver's automatic response serialization (of array, structs, queries)  and get back a JSON representation of "stuff" instead of going through MVC. Simply append ".json" to the end of the url, nothing else needs to change. Hit the url with .json and you'll see this:

That's all folks. All of this in 26 lines of code using 6 annotations and 0 xml.

Hope this helped and please hit us up with any questions.

-Micky