SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

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 upcoming book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy", from Manning.

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

Converting Groovy maps to query strings

Posted 2011-11-02 20:24:00.0

Yesterday I was teaching a class on Groovy when I suddenly realized there was a simpler way to do something I’d been doing for years. I like showing developers how easy it is to access RESTful web services with just a couple of lines of Groovy. Thmore »

Groovy “tutorial” chapters added to Making Java Groovy

Posted 2011-09-17 11:12:00.0

One of the lessons I learned during the first 1/3 review of Making Java Groovy is there are two kinds of developers interested in the book: those who already know both Groovy and Java, and those who are only comfortable with Java. The goal all along hasmore »

I think I get Spock Mocks now

Posted 2011-08-20 13:40:00.0

I’ve been misunderstanding a fundamental issue of Spock Mocks. That’s annoying, but probably inevitable given that I work with so many state-of-the-art, evolving API’s. If you spend enough time on the bleeding edge, sooner or later youmore »

Cool Groovy aspect in Spring

Posted 2011-03-22 00:22:00.0

I’ve been teaching a lot of Spring framework classes lately. In one of them, we have a unit on Aspect Oriented Program (AOP) in Spring. Spring provides all the necessary infrastructure to make AOP doablmore »

SOAP Web Services chapter added to MEAP

Posted 2011-02-28 20:17:00.0

I just added a new chapter discussing Groovy and SOAP-based web services to the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) version of Making Java Groovy. I prepared a decent introduction for the MEAP subscribers, which I thought I would share here: “Thomore »
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Presentations

Have a Groovy Spring

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. The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate the more »

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 »

Have a Groovy Spring

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Kenneth Kousen 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. The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate the ways that Groovy already 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, incorporating Groovy source code automatically, how the Grails Spring bean builder can help, and more.


Improve Your Java with Groovy

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Kenneth Kousen 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.






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