VRaptor

VRaptor’s Plugins

Plugins are extensions that adds some feature to VRaptor core. It’s useful for some situations like access a database under JPA or Hibernate, to send e-mails and more.

VRaptor JPA

VRaptor plugin allow your app to inject EntityManager and EntityManagerFactory. And more: the plugin implements the Open EntityManager In View filter, that create a transaction when request starts and commits the transaction in the end. If an exception occurs, the plugin rollback the transaction for you.

If you want to use, you need only copy the jars for your app. Or if your project uses Maven, you need only to declare the plugin artifact as you can see below:

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.5</version>
</dependency>

It’s very important that your persistence unit is named default, and the persistence.xml located at src/main/resources/META-INF/ directory.

The plugin doesn’t delivery any provider. So you need to declare your prefered provider, like Hibernate.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
    <version>4.3.0.Final</version> <!-- or another version compatible with JPA 2.1 -->
</dependency>

Or if you want to use Eclipselink:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.eclipse.persistence</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.1</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Hibernate

If you like to use Hibernate 4 instead of JPA you need to use vraptor-hibernate plugin. This plugin have a similar behaviour that vraptor-jpa, allowing you to inject Session e SessionFactory. The plugin also implements the Open Session In View pattern.

If you want to use, you need only copy the jars for your app. Or if your project uses Maven, you need only to declare the plugin artifact as you can see below:

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-hibernate</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.4</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Java 8

Plugin with support for Java 8, providing out of the box converters for Java Time classes (JSR-310), reflection parameter names, and more.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-java8</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

Simple mail

Allow you to send e-mail in an easy way.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-simplemail</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC4</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

Joda-time

Joda-time is a pretty API to work with date and time. To use joda-time you need to use the plugin vraptor-jodatime.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-jodatime</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC3</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Error-Control

Allows you to real time control error messages sending them by email.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-error-control</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.2</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Brutauth

Easy way to verify permission to access(authorization) a specific controller action.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-brutauth</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.4</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor QuartzJob

A simple Quartz scheduler

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-quartzjob</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.7</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Freemarker

Help you to render freemarker templates.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-freemarker</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC3</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Dash

A dashboard with several tools for your vraptor project.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-dash</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC3</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Authz

An alternative for access control (authorization) of your controller methods.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-authz</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0-RC2</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor I18n

Solutions for using i18n on view

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-i18n</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-RC4</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Test

Allows you to quickly create integration or system tests.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-test</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Paginator

Efficient pagination of your JPA/Hibernate data.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-paginator</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Panettone

A typesafe template engine written in Java.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-panettone</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0-RC9</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Biscotti

I18n typesafe library. No more missing keys and exceptions for you and your client.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-biscotti</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.0-RC1</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Routes

Extract and define custom routes on a properties file.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-routes</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC3</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor Simple Validator

A simple and effective way to do programmatic validations.

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum.vraptor</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor-simple-validator</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.0-RC3</version>
</dependency>

Plugin page at Github.

VRaptor contrib

You can found some plugins made by our users on vraptor-contrib.