By Robert Fischer

For years, the venerable Hibernate object-relational mapping framework has dominated the persistence scene in Java. The Grails web application framework extended Hibernate and Spring with their impressive GORM persistence framework, providing convention-over-configuration development to the O/RM and DAO layers.

This session will move through a quick introduction of GORM, HQL, and the GORM plugins.

By Robert Fischer

The Grails web application is an innovative hybrid of best-of-breed Java technologies and dynamic/convention-based development. The result is a powerful, flexible, exciting framework that still fits comfortably into enterprise stacks.

This session introduces Grails, but approaches it from the perspective of an enterprise web development stack, in order to see how Grails works well in mid-size and mature development shops.