Friday 26 October 2012

Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC v1.0.exe - as standalone exe

I just had a request  for the O2's Spring MVC module (developed ages ago), and It was was a good opportunity to test the latest version of the 'O2 Standalone tool builder', since it now supports the embedding of the tools installed via an O2 Script (usually stored in the _ToolsOrApis folder).

You can download the Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC v1.0.exe (or build it using O2) which is the stand alone exe of the old O2_Cmd_SpringMvc.msi tool (See at the end of this post for details on how this exe was created)



When you open this tool, you will get a GUI that looks like this:


Then if you drop a jar (or the zip of *.classes like the one you will find in the jPetClinic – O2 Demo Pack.zip  that you get from the Packaged Spring MVC Security Test Apps: JPetStore and PetClinc ), a series of conversions will occur (Jython is used to parse the java byte code) :



Which when finished will look like this:


For a detailed explanation of how this module works (including the VERY important /*O2Helper:MVCAutoBindListObject: hack) take a look at this blog post:
Visualizing Spring MVC Annotations based Controls (and Autobinding PetClinic’s vulnerabilities)



How the Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC v1.0.exe  was created

It was quite easy to package the O2_Cmd_SpringMvc.msi tool (note-to-self: do this for the other really powerful old O2 tools that are gathering dust in the O2 archives)

Step 1: Create an installer that downloads and extracts the msi:


Step 2: In an O2 C# REPL script create the Tool - O2 Cmd SpringMVC.h2 file

Which will consume the installers (shown above) and will trigger the extraction (when executed for the first time as a standalone exe)


Step 3: Open the context menu and chose the item to package the current script


And that's it!

The package tool (which is a script it self) should be open with the created exe:


It's quite powerful the fact that it took me longer to write this blog post than to package that old O2 tool  :)