Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead
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.
Presentations
Grails 1.3 Update
Grails provides a dynamic and agile development framework for web applications that is based on the most stable and productive open source libraries, including the Spring framework.
This session will describe the latest features available in the new Grails 1.3 release and will describe the roadmap for upcoming releases.
Grails Sans SQL
Grails provides solid and mature support for SQL databases, but what about the upcoming range of NoSQL data stores? I
In this talk Graeme will discuss how Grails can be backed onto alternative data store such as key/value, document and graph based data stores.
What's new in Grails 2.0?
In this session, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will deliver an update on the latest and greats features of the Grails framework - a dynamic, web application framework based on the Groovy language and designed for Spring. Graeme will cover all the new features of Grails 2.0 including agent-based reloading, unit testing mixins, and the latest enhancements to support Servlet 3.0.
Attendees will gain key knowledge of the latest techniques for building Grails applications on the Spring platform.
Polyglot Persistence in the Cloud with Grails
In this session, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate how you can deploy Grails applications into the Cloud and take advantage of a new age of polyglot persistence on the Grails platform.
Demonstrating persistence techniques on a variety of data stores, including Redis, MongoDB and an RDBMS, this talk will demonstrate how specific use cases can benefit from a polyglot approach to persistence allowing for scalable, Cloud-based Grails applications.
Grails Update
In this session, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will deliver an update on the latest and greatest features of the Grails framework, including all the new features introduced in the 2.x line.
Graeme will cover the recent enhancements to the GORM persistence toolkit, unit test mixins, Maven support and the latest web novelties amongst other topics."
GORM Internals
Want to understand the magic of GORM? Then this session is for you.
Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will go through a detailed presentation on how GORM works. From AST transformations to runtime metaprogramming, the nitty gritty details of GORM will be covered in depth."
Books
by Graeme Rocher and Jeff Brown
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The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails.
Grails is not just a Rails clone. It aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java developers and employs idioms that Java developers are comfortable using, making the adjustment in mentality to a dynamic framework less of a jump. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home.
Grails’ foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration.
Grails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding–by–convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.
Graeme Rocher, Grails lead and founder, and Jeff Brown bring you completely up–to–date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. You’ll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug–ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.
What you’ll learn
- Discover how the Web is changing and the role the Groovy language and its Rails framework play
- Get to know the Grails Project and its domains, services, filters, controllers, views, testing, and plug–ins
- Experience the availability of plug–ins for Rich Client and Ajax, web services, performance/utilities, scheduling, security, functionality, and even Persistence
- See how Grails works with other frameworks like Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, and more
- Create custom plug–ins in Grails
Who this book is for
This book is for everyone who is looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. This includes a large number of Java developers who have been enticed by the productivity gains seen with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its environment is a perfect fit for easily adaptable and concise languages such as Groovy and Ruby, and there is huge interest from the developer community in general to embrace these languages.
Price: $31.01
You Save: $15.98 (34%)
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The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails.
Grails is not just a Rails clone. It aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java developers and employs idioms that Java developers are comfortable using, making the adjustment in mentality to a dynamic framework less of a jump. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home.
Grails’ foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration.
Grails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding–by–convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.
Graeme Rocher, Grails lead and founder, and Jeff Brown bring you completely up–to–date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. You’ll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug–ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.
What you’ll learn
- Discover how the Web is changing and the role the Groovy language and its Rails framework play
- Get to know the Grails Project and its domains, services, filters, controllers, views, testing, and plug–ins
- Experience the availability of plug–ins for Rich Client and Ajax, web services, performance/utilities, scheduling, security, functionality, and even Persistence
- See how Grails works with other frameworks like Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, and more
- Create custom plug–ins in Grails
Who this book is for
This book is for everyone who is looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. This includes a large number of Java developers who have been enticed by the productivity gains seen with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its environment is a perfect fit for easily adaptable and concise languages such as Groovy and Ruby, and there is huge interest from the developer community in general to embrace these languages.