What's new in Grails 2.0?

In this session, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will deliver an update on the latest and greats features of the Grails framework - a dynamic, web application framework based on the Groovy language and designed for Spring. Graeme will cover all the new features of Grails 2.0 including agent-based reloading, unit testing mixins, and the latest enhancements to support Servlet 3.0.

Attendees will gain key knowledge of the latest techniques for building Grails applications on the Spring platform.


About the speaker

Graeme Rocher

Graeme Rocher

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. Graeme joined SpringSource in late 2008 upon the acquisition of G2One Inc. Before founding G2One, 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.

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