Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java developers. The 1.2 version was released in December 2011. This release includes all the most popular features that the Roo user community have requested as well as many performance and usability improvements.
The new features of Roo 1.2.0 are:
* Apache 2.0 licensed
* Multi-module Maven project support
* JSF / PrimeFaces scaffolding
* Services / repositories (using Spring Data JPA and Spring Data MongoDB)
* Database reverse engineering multi-schema support
* Flexible GWT support
* Shell usability improvements
The first maintenance release 1.2.1. is available since last week and includes fixes for a number of issues in multi-module Maven support and JSF/PrimeFaces. It also has performance enhancements and has been updated to support the recent release of PrimeFaces 3.1 and Google App Engine 1.6.2.