By Burt Beckwith

You've used GORM in Grails apps, you've written custom criteria and HQL queries, and now you're ready to take database access in Grails to the next level.

In this talk we'll look at improving performance of Grails apps by avoiding mapped collections, strategies for second-level caching using EhCache, runtime monitoring and graphing, and using a custom Configuration subclass to customize your Hibernate config beyond what GORM mappings provide.

By Burt Beckwith

In this talk we'll look at the new Spring Security Core plugin and its dependent plugins. The core plugin provides all of the standard functionality you expect from a security plugin (URL security, users, roles, form-based authentication, etc.) and extension plugins add extra functionality such as OpenID support, LDAP authentication, object and method security with ACLs, and more.

We'll look at the various plugins and create some sample applications to see how easy it is to secure a Grails application with Spring Security.

By Burt Beckwith

Hibernate's create-drop mode is great when you're prototyping your Grails applications but once you get past the initial stages of your project you'll need to manage database changes (adding, removing, and renaming tables, columns, and indexes, refactoring data, etc.)

You can do this by hand but there are excellent tools and plugins available and in this talk we'll compare the various approaches available.