New England Software Symposium
September 12 - 14, 2008 - Boston, MA
Jeff Brown
Core Member of the Grails Development Team
Core member of the Grails development team, Jeff Brown, is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. Jeff has been involved in designing and building object oriented systems for over 15 years. Jeff's areas of expertise include web development with Groovy & Grails, Java and agile development.
Presentations
Agile Test Driven Development With Groovy
Dynamic languages bring a lot of interesting elements to the table for teams interested in doing Test Driven Development (TDD). Groovy lends itself very well to TDD and this session demonstrates many features of the language and its libraries that help teams build more testable systems and build better tests.
The value of Test Driven Development (TDD) has become widely accepted. The practice has extended beyond just XP teams. Good TDD practices yield high quality software and help teams maintain confidence in their software as complexity grows. The dynamic nature of Groovy makes TDD easy and fun. Groovy may be used to unit test not only Groovy code but other code as well. Testing Java code with Groovy is a snap. Learn to use the power of Groovy to test your systems.
Grails - Agile Web 2.0 The Easy Way
Grails is a full stack MVC framework for building web applications for the Java platform. Grails makes web application development both fun and easy. This session covers all of the fundamentals of building web applications with Grails.
Businesses need rich web applications and developers want to be able to build those applications without the pain that usually comes along with doing so. Grails addresses these needs very well. Grails demolishes many of the pain points that Java developers have almost (not quite) become numb to after years of suffering. This session covers all of the fundamentals:
- Introduction To Grails
- Domain Objects
- Controllers
- GSPs
- Custom TagLibs
- GORM
Advanced Web Development With Grails
Grails makes web application development both fun and easy. This session dives beyond the basics to cover advanced details of Grails that bring the really exciting features to your applications.
Getting started building web applications for the Java platform is easy. Following that through to rich interactive applications that solve the business needs is more tricky. Grails goes the whole way to address pain points not only for simple applications but of real enterprise applications with real demands. This session steps through many of the advanced features of Grails that help get your applications through that last 20% that teams often struggle with.
Books
by Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown
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Java professionals long the productivity gains a framework like Ruby on Rails provides, without having to leave the Java Platform. Grails provides this missing link by bringing the best aspects from Grails while embracing the Java platform and language itself. Grails is an open source Java/Groovy-based Rails-like framework that gives dynamic Java a boost; so, Java developers now have a viable Java-based solution instead of considering the non-Java-based Ruby on Rails, which can create more problems than it solves. Grails, sometimes called Groovy on Rails, is an emerging area of much interest with already anticipated available support from such key Java projects as Spring, Oracle, and more.
The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition, will be the first and definitive book on Grails written by the founder and leads of Grails.
Price: $33.49
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Java professionals long the productivity gains a framework like Ruby on Rails provides, without having to leave the Java Platform. Grails provides this missing link by bringing the best aspects from Grails while embracing the Java platform and language itself. Grails is an open source Java/Groovy-based Rails-like framework that gives dynamic Java a boost; so, Java developers now have a viable Java-based solution instead of considering the non-Java-based Ruby on Rails, which can create more problems than it solves. Grails, sometimes called Groovy on Rails, is an emerging area of much interest with already anticipated available support from such key Java projects as Spring, Oracle, and more.
The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition, will be the first and definitive book on Grails written by the founder and leads of Grails.
