Groovy Tapestry
Groovy is a great programming language for removing the programming clutter of the Java programming language and getting to the essence of your code. Tapestry is a great web framework for removing the clutter of web development and getting to the essence of your application. Use them together and the whole is more, and more productive, than the sum of the parts!
We'll be using building and inspecting a Tapestry application written exclusively in Groovy: pages and components, Hibernate entities, and new services. We'll see all the advantages and skirt around a few minor pitfalls.
About Howard Lewis Ship
Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and is a noted expert on Java framework design and developer productivity. He has over twenty years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java.
Howard is respected in the Java community as an expert on web application development, dependency injection, Java meta-programming, and developer productivity. He is a frequent speaker at JavaOne, NoFluffJustStuff, ApacheCon and other conferences, and the author of "Tapestry in Action" for Manning (covering Tapestry 3.0). Lately, he's been dipping his toes into alternate languages, including Clojure.
Howard is an independent consultant, offering Tapestry training, mentoring and project work as well as training in Clojure. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, and his son, Jacob.
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