Tech Stack and Technologies Used

Link to https://github.com/OpenMRS-Australia/openmrs-cpm/wiki/Resources

The core is built on Java but current development has leveraged REST services to enable client side development in AngularJS as show in the diagram below

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Links to technologies used

• AngularJS (Training material: http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial / )

• Spring

• Hibernate

Build process uses Gradle (previously was Maven)

BDD via Cucumber

References

Spring REST

• Spring RestTemplate: http://www.springframework.net/rest/doc-latest/reference/html/resttemplate.html / http://spring.io/blog/2009/03/27/rest-in-spring-3-resttemplate/ 

• Consuming a RESTful Web Service with AngularJS: https://spring.io/guides/gs/consuming-rest-angularjs/

• Handling exceptions: http://spring.io/blog/2013/11/01/exception-handling-in-spring-mvc

Angular

• Services: https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_11 / https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngResource/service/$resource

• Filters: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/filter / https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_09

• Directives: http://www.sitepoint.com/practical-guide-angularjs-directives/ / https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive

• Routing & HTML partials: https://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_07

RequireJS

Testing

• Cucumber:http://cukes.info/ / http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/a-automating-ria/index.html

• Page Objects: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects

• Timing Races: http://www.bizalgo.com/2012/01/14/timing-races-selenium-2-implicit-waits-explicit-waits/