Rather than a framework, Shade is a set of tools targeted to making Spring/Hibernate application development easier. By enforcing best practices improve reusability eliminate the need for boiler-plate code Unlike Spring Roo, Shade does not rely on code generation.

1. Build the project ==================== This project requires Maven 2 or higher.

mvn clean install

2. Deploy the example webapp ============================ Copy the newly build target file "shade-webapp-example.war" to your favorite Servlet Container webapps directory and access the webapp homepage at the following address: http://localhost:8080/shade-webapp-example/

3. Create your own webapp with Shade ====================================