Lima-Loa
This is release 0.5 of the Lima-Loa project. For details of the latest release, please check the project web site - www.limaloa.org.
Introduction
Lima-Loa is a generic implementation of the Gang-of-four Adapter pattern for the Java language, or any other language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It allows creation of adapter objects that implement a specified Java interface, and automatically marshall method calls onto pre-defined methods on a target object. Method parameters and results are automatically converted where required.
Lima-Loa has a direct API, and Spring integration. Under the covers it converts simple method parameters or results itself, and uses Dozer to convert custom JavaBeans.
Release Contents
The following files are included in this release:
| File or Directory | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| distro/lima-loa.jar | The Lima-loa .jar | |
| docs/spring/limaloa.xsd | The Spring Configuration XML Schema | |
| docs/public-api | The JavaDoc for the Direct API | |
| docs/internal-api | The JavaDoc for the internal (private) API | |
| docs/manual | The User Manual | |
| docs/quality | The JUnit test results and quality checks run on this release | |
| libs/dozer-4 | The third-party libraries required to use Lima-Loa with Dozer version 4. See ReadMe.txt in this directory for further details | |
| libs/jdk1.4 | The additional libraries needed to run Spring under JDK 1.4. These are not needed when using JDK 1.5 or above, or when using the Direct API | |
| samples/direct-api | Sample applications demonstrating use of the Lima-Loa direct API. See ReadMe.txt in this directory for further details. To run each example, simply run the Ant build script | |
| samples/spring | Sample applications demonstrating use of Lima-Loa with Spring. See ReadMe.txt in this directory for further details. To run each example, simply run the Ant build script | |
| src | The Lima-Loa source code | |
| test | The Lima-Loa JUnit test code |
Getting Started
Please read the manual, look through the sample applications, and have a play.
If you have any questions, bug reports or feature requests, please see the project web site.