SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

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Downtown Chicago
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Kenneth Kousen

Author of "Making Java Groovy"

Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas of Java and XML. He is the author of the O'Reilly screencast "Up and Running Groovy", and the upcoming Manning book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy".

He has been a tech reviewer for several books on software development. Over the past decade he's taught thousands of developers in business and industry. He is also an adjunct professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute site in Hartford, CT. His academic background includes two BS degrees from M.I.T., an MS and a Ph.D. from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.

Blog

Elvis carried away by spaceships

Posted Friday, January 13, 2012

I love teaching Groovy to existing Java developers, because they have such a hard time holding back Tears Of Joy when they see how much easier life can be. Today, though, I did a quick demo that resulted in a line of Groovy that was so amusing I had to more »

Groovy StubFor magic

Posted Monday, January 2, 2012

I finished revising the testing chapter in Making Java Groovy (the MEAP should be updated this week), but before I leave it entirely, I want to mention a Groovy capability that is both cool and easy to use. Cool isn’t the right word, actually. I hmore »

log.rofl(‘Fun with Groovy metaprogramming’)

Posted Monday, December 12, 2011

Recently I saw a post by someone (I think it was @jbarnette, but it was retweeted to me) suggesting that there should be some alternate log levels, like fyi, omg, or even wtf. I thought that was pretty funny, but then it occurred to me I could probably more »
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Presentations

Groovy Web Services, Part I: REST

Groovy has excellent networking capabilities and is great at processing XML, which makes it a natural for working with RESTful web services. more »

Groovy Web Services, Part II: SOAP and JAX-WS

Although RESTful web services have gotten better press, SOAP-based web services are often the backbone of many large enterprises. The user-friendly advances in JAX-WS 2.* make developing such services much easier.more »

Groovy Web Services, Part I: REST

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Kenneth Kousen By Kenneth Kousen

Groovy has excellent networking capabilities and is great at processing XML, which makes it a natural for working with RESTful web services.



In this presentation, we'll access multiple web services using Groovy, ranging from Google Charts to Amazon books to Twitter and more. We'll then build and deploy a RESTful web service, both with Groovy alone and using Grails.


Groovy Web Services, Part II: SOAP and JAX-WS

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Kenneth Kousen By Kenneth Kousen

Although RESTful web services have gotten better press, SOAP-based web services are often the backbone of many large enterprises. The user-friendly advances in JAX-WS 2.* make developing such services much easier. As with most Java topics, Groovy simplifies the development of web services as well. Since it is particularly well-suited to XML processing, Groovy is quite helpful in the web services and SOA worlds.



In this presentation, we'll look at how Groovy interacts with JAX-WS web services. We'll build both clients and services and discuss both the benefits and drawbacks of using Groovy in your web service development.






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