SpringOne 2GX 2011

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Graeme Rocher

Head of Grails Development for SpringSource

As Head of Grails Development for SpringSource, 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.

Blog

Moved

Posted Thursday, January 5, 2012

This blog has moved home to Tumbmore »

Grails 2.0 Released!

Posted Thursday, December 15, 2011

Long time no post, but after lots of hard work from the Grails core team we are pleased to announce the Grails 2.0 release.I have posted a comprehensive announcement on the SpringSource blomore »

Grails on Cloud Foundry

Posted Wednesday, April 13, 2011

For those of you who missed it, yesterday we launched the new CloudFoundry which we hope will become the premier deployment model forGrails (and Spring, Ruby, Node.js etc.) applications in the thefuturmore »

Reading i18n messages from the database with Grails

Posted Friday, April 16, 2010

In a recent consulting engagement, a client wanted to know how to go about reading i18n messages from the database rather than static properties files (the default in Grails). Considering how easy this is to do I was surprised when I Googled it that thermore »
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Presentations

The Grails Plug-in System Part I: Plug into productivity

Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration. This talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate Grails' modular architecture and how to hook into runtime configuration to adapt your more »

The Grails Plug-in System Part II: Plug into productivity

Part II of the Grails Plug-in System will pick up where Part I left off. more »

The Grails Plug-in System Part I: Plug into productivity

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Graeme Rocher By Graeme Rocher

Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration. This talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate Grails' modular architecture and how to hook into runtime configuration to adapt your application based on its environment and/or the presence of other plug-ins.

The talk will start with an overview of the Grails architecture and then jump into an extended example of how to write your own plug-in. As part of the journey you'll learn how to customize the Grails build system, participate in runtime Spring configuration, add new persistence methods that work with Hibernate and enhance your existing classes through Grails' advanced Groovy Meta-programming system.



Session Topics:

  • The Grails Architecture
  • Scripting Grails with Gant
  • Using Grails' Spring DSL: The BeanBuilder
  • Adding new methods, properties and constructors with ExpandoMetaClass
  • Packaging, distributing and installing your plug-in

The Grails Plug-in System Part II: Plug into productivity

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Graeme Rocher By Graeme Rocher

Part II of the Grails Plug-in System will pick up where Part I left off.



An extended example of how to write your own Grails plug-in. As part of the journey you'll learn how to customize the Grails build system, participate in runtime Spring configuration, add new persistence methods that work with Hibernate and enhance your existing classes through Grails' advanced Groovy Meta-programming system.



Books

by Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown

The Definitive Guide to Grails (Expert's Voice in Web Development) Buy from Amazon
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  • Java professionals long the productivity gains a framework like Ruby on Rails provides, without having to leave the Java Platform. Grails provides this missing link by bringing the best aspects from Grails while embracing the Java platform and language itself. Grails is an open source Java/Groovy-based Rails-like framework that gives dynamic Java a boost; so, Java developers now have a viable Java-based solution instead of considering the non-Java-based Ruby on Rails, which can create more problems than it solves. Grails, sometimes called Groovy on Rails, is an emerging area of much interest with already anticipated available support from such key Java projects as Spring, Oracle, and more.

    The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition, will be the first and definitive book on Grails written by the founder and leads of Grails.