Tooling the Groovy Ecosystem

The SpringSource Tool Suite makes developing your Groovy and Grails applications significantly easier with its support for debugging, refactoring, editing, and server diagnostics. In this session, we will showcase the Groovy and Grails tooling available in STS, focusing on the more recent advances such as configurable DSL support, Grails refactoring, debugging, and direct deployment to either tcServer or the Cloud Foundry PaaS. From a build point of view we'll take a quick look at the new Gradle support and an alternative to GMaven for building your maven based mixed Java/Groovy projects.

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Andy Clement

Andy Clement

Andy Clement is a staff engineer in the SpringSource division of VMware, based in the languages and tools lab in Vancouver. He has more than ten years experience in Enterprise Application Development and now spends his time building tools for languages like AspectJ, Groovy and JavaScript and frameworks like Grails. He currently oversees the Groovy Grails Tool Suite deliverable, a variant of the Spring Tool Suite with a focus on Groovy and Grails.

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Andrew Eisenberg

Andrew Eisenberg

Andrew Eisenberg is the lead of the Groovy-Eclipse project and also works on the Grails tooling portion of the SpringSource Tool Suite. He is also the prooject lead for the AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) at Eclipse.org. Andrew creates IDE tools that ease the cognitive burden of creating complex programs. He will not rest and not be happy until programming is as fun and easy as playing with legos. Andrew has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia where he researched the intersection between programming languages and tools.

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