Project Lead of the Grails Project & CTO of G2One
Graeme Rocher is the project lead and co-founder of the Grails web application framework. He's a member of the JSR-241 Expert Group which standardizes the Groovy language. Graeme authored the Definitive Guide to Grails for Apress and is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, NoFluffJustStuff, JAOO, the Sun TechDays and more. Before founding G2One Inc, Graeme was the CTO of SkillsMatter, a skills transfer company specializing in Open Source technology and agile software development, where Graeme was in charge of the company's courseware development strategy and general technical direction.Presentations by Graeme Rocher
The Grails Plug-in System: Plug into productivity
Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration. This talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate Grails' modular architecture and how to hook into runtime configuration to adapt your application based on its environment and/or the presence of other plug-ins."
Grails: Spring & Hibernate Development Re-invented
Spring & Hibernate development, although hailed in the past as being "lightweight", is still an XML-centric, configuration heavy approach to web application development. In this talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, you will discover how you can leverage Spring & Hibernate without ever having to write a line of configuration!"
GORM - Object Relational Mapping with Hibernate De-mystified
Hibernate is an immensely powerful ORM layer with an array of features and mapping options which comes at the cost of complexity. The web application framework Grails ships with an ORM layer that builds of top of Hibernate, but eliminates much of the complexity through clever use of convention and the dynamic features of the Groovy language. Known as GORM, it offers a convention-based mapping strategy that hooks into the Hibernate configuration model and provides an abstraction layer above Hibernate with powerful features like Groovy builders for Criteria, dynamic finders and transaction management through closures."
Graeme Rocher's Blog
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The main portal for Sky television has relaunched written in Grails. Sky, also known as British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB, employs 17000 people in the UK and operates the largest satellite network in the UK.
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
Update 07/10: Couple of new things have arison since this was posted. Firstly, Sky actually employ 17000 people not 11000. Seems the Google sample data I obtained was out of date.
Also Glenn Saqui has a nice write-up on the architecture of Sky.com on Marc's Blog. Altogether the 4 subsites listed above receive over 110 million hits per month and run on a cluster of web layer machines and 2 db machines. Checkout the aforementioned link for more info.
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
Update 07/10: Couple of new things have arison since this was posted. Firstly, Sky actually employ 17000 people not 11000. Seems the Google sample data I obtained was out of date.
Also Glenn Saqui has a nice write-up on the architecture of Sky.com on Marc's Blog. Altogether the 4 subsites listed above receive over 110 million hits per month and run on a cluster of web layer machines and 2 db machines. Checkout the aforementioned link for more info.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The main portal for Sky television has relaunched written in Grails. Sky, also known as British Sky Broadcasting or BSkyB, employs 11000 people worldwide and operates the largest satellite network in the UK.
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
The site receives a million+ hits per day and joins all the other subsites also written in Grails:
Congrats to the Sky team!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Our busy community of plugin developers have been at it again and now there is a brand new plugin for Grails that adds support for the Terracotta data grid. It was always possible to do this with a bit of manual configuration, but now the plugin automates things nicely using a few new Grails command line scripts.
This is one of the really great things about Grails and Groovy, because Groovy classes are just standard Java classes it is possible to integrate Groovy or Grails applications with any existing Java infrastructure, including data grids like Terracotta and Coherence. Awesome stuff.
This is one of the really great things about Grails and Groovy, because Groovy classes are just standard Java classes it is possible to integrate Groovy or Grails applications with any existing Java infrastructure, including data grids like Terracotta and Coherence. Awesome stuff.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Wow, the Groovy/Grails community is really getting it together. First we had the launch of grailscrowd.com, which is a social networking site for Groovy/Grails people to connect with other Groovy/Grails people. The site is built on Grails and its only been up for a few days but aldready over 600 people registered. If you haven't done so do so! The source code for GrailsCrowd is also availabe at Github
Not to be outdown, however, Glen Smith has launched the Groovy Awards ! A site dedicated to nominating the best contributors and to the Groovy / Grails community. Awards up for grabs include Groovy / Grails t-shirts and other goodies. Check it out.
On my front, I know I have been rather inactive posting. Books are really all consuming beasts. I have given a go to twittering now and again about what I'm writing about, although I'm still not sure I "get" twitter.
Not to be outdown, however, Glen Smith has launched the Groovy Awards ! A site dedicated to nominating the best contributors and to the Groovy / Grails community. Awards up for grabs include Groovy / Grails t-shirts and other goodies. Check it out.
On my front, I know I have been rather inactive posting. Books are really all consuming beasts. I have given a go to twittering now and again about what I'm writing about, although I'm still not sure I "get" twitter.
Monday, July 28, 2008
I'll be giving a talk on the state of Grails at the London Groovy+Grails user group meeting on the 31st of July. Skills Matter are hosting it as usual, be sure to sign-up here.
