title: Learning Spring Roo without Starting from Entities
body: <p>I just started learning Spring Roo. After reading creating web application in 10 minutes. I have the impression that Roo assumes that we have an entity concept ready, and create the controller component - or what they refer to as scaffolds. </p>
  
  <p>We are in a prototyping stage and we are splitting the task to explore the UI component, and the persistent layer between 2 people. At my side, I am trying to create a simple user registration form that takes in user name, password, send the request to the server, and get the server to redirect a user to another page. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a good approach for this task without having to create entities as described in the 10 minutes lesson: <a href="http://static.springsource.org/spring-roo/reference/html/intro.html#intro-first-steps" rel="nofollow">http://static.springsource.org/spring-roo/reference/html/intro.html#intro-first-steps</a></p>
  
  <p>I have downloaded the Spring Tool suite (STS), and  I am trying out the roo, maven, features in the STS to get me started.</p>
  
  <p>Any tips, hints, or helpful links to other tutorial will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers,</p>