bbq is an application framework for developing responsive, dynamic data-centric applications to be run in a web browser. It is made of several modules:

See the bbq documentation site

The JavaScript UI library.

A unit testing framework used to do automated testing of bbq based applications.

Takes the contents of numerous JavaScript, CSS and i18n files and joins them together for fast download.

Ties the UI library, compiler and test suite together for use in CI builds.

Some convenience controllers and other niceties to aid working with the Spring framework.

Reusable classes to help when developing AJAX based form authentication against Spring Security.

A Maven Archetype quickstart project

## How do I get it?

Add the following repositories to your maven project:

The new repo details are:

<repositories>
	<repository>
		<id>achingbrain-releases</id>
		<url>http://achingbrain.github.com/maven-repo/releases</url>
	</repository>
	<repository>
		<id>achingbrain-snapshots</id>
		<url>http://achingbrain.github.com/maven-repo/snapshots</url>
		<snapshots>
			<enabled>true</enabled>
		</snapshots>
	</repository>
</repositories>

and the for the plugin repositories…

<pluginRepositories>
	<pluginRepository>
		<id>achingbrain-releases</id>
		<url>http://achingbrain.github.com/maven-repo/releases</url>
	</pluginRepository>
	<pluginRepository>
		<id>achingbrain-snapshots</id>
		<url>http://achingbrain.github.com/maven-repo/snapshots</url>
		<snapshots>
			<enabled>true</enabled>
		</snapshots>
	</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

See the bbq-maven-plugin readme for details of how to set up the compiler.