SPRINGONE 2GX 2012: THE SPRING, GROOVY, GRAILS, & CLOUD EVENT OF THE YEAR!
Kenneth Kousen
Author of "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
From now on, I’m calling it GroovyString
Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012
I’ve been doing a lot of introductory Groovy presentations lately, and an issue keeps coming up that I feel I have to address. I’ve had to think hard about how to do this, though, because I don’t want to be misunderstood. I’m promore »Writing json output from a groovlet
Posted Tuesday, March 6, 2012
I’ve been working with groovlets for years and recently had to dig into them in some detail, and that lead me to a situation I’m simultaneously very pleased and rather horrified about. The appeal of groovlets is both their simplicity and thmore »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 »Presentations
Improving Spring with Groovy
Groovy and the Spring framework are old friends. Spring includes dynamic beans that can be modified while a system is still running, and of course the Grails framework is built on top of Spring MVC. Here we'll illustrate all the ways that Groovy works wmore »Improve Your Java with Groovy
Groovy was never intended to replace Java. Instead, it expands Java capabilities and makes developers' lives easier. In this presentation, we'll survey many ways to make your Java systems easier by adding Groovy.more »Improving Spring with Groovy
By Kenneth Kousen
Groovy and the Spring framework are old friends. Spring includes dynamic beans that can be modified while a system is still running, and of course the Grails framework is built on top of Spring MVC. Here we'll illustrate all the ways that Groovy works with Spring, and show how a developer can take advantage of those capabilities right away.
Examples will include using Groovy beans in Spring systems, refreshable beans, inline scripted beans, aspects in Groovy, and even the Grails Spring bean builder.
Improve Your Java with Groovy
By Kenneth Kousen
Groovy was never intended to replace Java. Instead, it expands Java capabilities and makes developers' lives easier. In this presentation, we'll survey many ways to make your Java systems easier by adding Groovy.
Among the topics we'll cover are: parsing and generating XML, simplifying your build, making testing easier, quick database access, working with Spring, and mixing Groovy and Java at the code level.
- NFJS SITES:
- No Fluff Just Stuff
- Uber Conf
- NFJS One
- SpringOne 2GX
- Rich Web Experience
- Project Automation Experience
- SPRINGSOURCE SITES:
- Springsource.com
- Springsource.org