Introduction to the XEO Framework

XEO (pronouced "Zio", which stands for eXtensible Enterprise Objects) is an agile development framework that speeds the creation of web-based management applications.

XEO's approach to development is modelling real world entities (such as people, cars or invoices) as XEO Object Models, defining their behavior and using component-based visual layer to achieve a full-fledged web application, which includes listing, editing and searching of instances of said entities.

Requirements

An application built using the XEO framework requires a J2EE Server (such as Oracle's OC4J or JBOSS) running Oracle's Java 6 and backed by a relational database (XEO has connectors for popular Databases such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server), altough data-source independence is in XEO's roap map.

For Who?

This document assumes you're familiar with Object Oriented Programming concepts and with the Java language in particular. Knowledge of the relational model and the Structured Query Language (SQL) is also recommended. Familiarity with the Eclipse IDE is a plus, since developing a XEO application is done using XEO Studio which is an Eclipse Plugin created specifically to aid in the XEO development process.

How

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