I’m pretty new to jboss forge but have been developing JSF and JPA based applications for a long time, usually backed by Spring instead of EE though.

Currently the scaffolding plugin seems to generate a fairly flat application structure with the persistence context injected and used directly in the beans.

In most the projects I’ve worked on we always had more separation in our design where the controller or backing bean really belonged to the view and only contained view logic and no business logic. I feel that is crucial for building larger applications and I hope you feel the same way?

I would expect a lot of people (this is our use case) use Forge to quickly generate a base for an application on which to build upon. We need to manually add some business rules behind the the CRUD screens and we need to build a few complete new screens altogether.

Do you feel the current design is too limited for this?I feel the beans in the current form are begging for a mixture of both view and business logic which in my mind is bad design for any larger project. Is Forge not intended for this or am I missing something here?