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I have been working on Salesforce for a last few months. It is a great platform with so much of flexibility. One thing they got to do a lot of work is around developer tools.

One recurring thing I do whenever I deal with Salesforce is to explore the objects, understand their relationships. It is not that easy to understand the objects relationships in the “user friendly” web UI nor in the Force.com Explorer.

Even though Force.com Explorer has some features like querying for data, displaying the child relationships, I really not comfortable with UI layout or the feel of Air components (hey, I really tried to like it ).

Long story short, I thought there is some opportunity for a nice tool to explore some aspects of Salesforce.com and started on a tool based on the fantastic Eclipse platform (Never tried Netbeans RCP platform so cannot speak for that). With in few weeks of time, I have added enough features to the tool that I would like to release to wider audience. Check it out.

I dedicate this tool to Kashyap (today he is 14 months old).

Real Force Explorer 1.0.2

Got this message today while logging into Yahoo Mail. Hope this is not something similar to what happened with Sony PSN

At times the problem with Java eco-system is its complexity due to availability plethora of choice of tools/frameworks. Getting a basic application with appropriate stack working is the big hurdle.

Same goes with the effort to get the Gwt-Spring-Hibernate stack working.

There have been lots of references about Gilead and Gwt-Sl libraries and how to use them to glue the stacks together but couldn’t find a complete deploy-able application. Hence this post.

Here is a complete deploy-able war file and its source. The example uses the following libraries.

• Smart Gwt
• Gwt
• Gwt-Sl
• Gilead
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Hsqldb

Download the war, deploy and test it. Explore the source to get the understanding of stack. Post a comment if you have any questions.