Speakers
- Dan Allen
- Aaron Bedra
- Tim Berglund
- Rohit Bhardwaj
- David Bock
- Stevie Borne
- Jeff Brown
- James Carr
- Scott Davis
- Jeremy Deane
- Keith Donald
- Michael Easter
- Robert Fischer
- Neal Ford
- Brian Gilstrap
- Andrew Glover
- Brian Goetz
- Stuart Halloway
- David Hussman
- Mark Johnson
- Dave Klein
- Scott Leberknight
- Tiffany Lentz
- Howard Lewis Ship
- Chris Maki
- Matthew McCullough
- Alex Miller
- Ted Neward
- Michael Nygard
- Pratik Patel
- Mark Richards
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Srivaths Sankaran
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Aleksandar Seovic
- Ken Sipe
- Brian Sletten
- Matt Stine
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Burr Sutter
- Vladimir Vivien
- Mark Volkmann
- Craig Walls
- Richard Worth
Dave Klein
Author of 'Grails: A Quick-Start Guide'
Presentations
Grails Deep Dive
You've heard about how easy it is to build web apps with Grails. Maybe you've even seen the simple CRUD app in a blink of an eye, but do you want to see what Grails is really capable of? Then join us as we walk through the construction of a real web appli more »Grails Takes Care of the REST
Representational State Transfer (REST) is fast becoming recognized as the preferred web services architecture in many situations. REST provides a loosely coupled way for applications to communicate with each other across the web. The simplicity and expr more »Grails Integration Strategies
It's amazing how quickly one can build web applications with Grails in a greenfield environment, but most of us do not have that luxury. We have existing infrastructure and applications that we have to maintain and extend. We have legacy databases (or l more »Grails Deep Dive
By Dave Klein
You've heard about how easy it is to build web apps with Grails. Maybe you've even seen the simple CRUD app in a blink of an eye, but do you want to see what Grails is really capable of? Then join us as we walk through the construction of a real web application with this powerful framework. Along the way we'll see how to take advantage of Grails' features like GORM, service classes, custom tags, and URL mapping.
You'll be amazed at how quickly you can become productive with Grails, not just because of scaffolding but because of the power of “Convention over Configuration,” sensible defaults, and the dynamic goodness of Groovy - all applied to a suite of the best tools in the industry, such as Spring, Hibernate, Tomcat, Ant, Sitemesh, JUnit, and more.
Prerequisite: A general knowledge of what Grails is.
Grails Takes Care of the REST
By Dave Klein
Representational State Transfer (REST) is fast becoming recognized as the preferred web services architecture in many situations. REST provides a loosely coupled way for applications to communicate with each other across the web. The simplicity and expressiveness of REST make it a perfect fit for Grails. Grails provides a full stack framework with which to build RESTful applications, complete with persistence, a transactional service layer, logging, security services, and more. Whether you're building applications for a service oriented architecture or just want to add some integration points to your standard web apps, you can relax and let Grails take care of the REST.
In this presentation we will look at:
- What REST is and what it is not
- How to consume RESTful services with Grails
- How to implement RESTful services in Grails
Grails Integration Strategies
By Dave Klein
It's amazing how quickly one can build web applications with Grails in a greenfield environment, but most of us do not have that luxury. We have existing infrastructure and applications that we have to maintain and extend. We have legacy databases (or legacy database administrators) to deal with. Does this mean we cannot benefit from the magic of Grails? No way! The ease of use and productivity of Grails is matched by its power and flexibility. In this session we will discuss some of the ways that Grails can be integrated with legacy databases, EJB servers, and even JSF applications.
Some of the strategies we will cover include:
- Calling EJB session beans from a Grail application
- Using Grails' ORM mapping to access legacy databases
- Accessing JNDI resources from Grails
- Using AJAX to call Grails' services from Java Server Faces
- Integrating with existing Spring MVC applications
Books
by Dave Klein
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Grails is a full stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks.
In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, you'll see how to use Grails by iteratively building an unique, working application. By the time we're done, you'll have built and deployed a real, functioning website.
Along the way, we'll learn about domain classes, controllers, and GSP views. We'll see how Grails allows us to use powerful frameworks like Spring and Hibernate without even knowing it.
Using this hands-on, pragmatic approach, we'll explore topics such as AJAX in Grails, custom tags, and plugins. We'll dig into Grails' powerful view technology, Groovy Server Pages, and see how we can easily leverage the help given to us by scaffolding to create custom user interfaces faster than you would have thought possible.
With Grails, you can get a lot done with little effort. With this book, you'll get a lot done as well. It's time to bring the fun back into web programming. Get started with Grails today.