Speakers


Robert Fischer

Java Concurrency Specialist and GORM Expert; Principal, Smokejumper Consulting

Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer is a multi-language open source developer currently specializing in Groovy in Grails. In the past, his specialties have been in Perl, Java, Ruby, and OCaml. In the future, his specialty will probably be F# or (preferably) a functional JVM language like Scala or Clojure.

Robert is the author of Grails Persistence in GORM and GSQL, a regular contributor to GroovyMag and JSMag, the founder of the JConch Java concurrency library, and the author/maintainer of Liquibase-DSL and the Autobase database migration plugin for Grails.



Blog

And….fail.

Posted 2010-07-26 12:48:00.0

Okay, so this is some serious failage on a website. I just submitted a form, and I get this: In and of itself, that’s just bad coding. I can deal wit more »

DZone Videos of Me and What I’ve Been Up To

Posted 2010-06-23 14:34:00.0

In case you fear I’ve fallen off the face of the planet completely, here’s some evidence to the contrary. DZone put up two video interviews of me: one on Gradle and open source and one on Grails plugins and domain objects. A more »

Formally Done with Grails Plugins and Mailing Lists

Posted 2010-05-08 20:03:00.0

I’m formally tapping out of Grails plugins and mailing lists at this point. It’s nothing personal to anyone involved or a particular judgement on Grails—I just don’t care anymore. I’ve got a different life more »
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Presentations

A Practical Take on GORM

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-o more »

Grails for the Enterprise

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. more »

A Practical Take on GORM

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Robert Fischer 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.


Grails for the Enterprise

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Robert Fischer 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.



Books

Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL
by Robert Fischer

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  • Unique to the popular Grails web framework is its architecture. While other frameworks are built from the ground up, Grails leverages existing and proven technologies that already have advanced functionality built in. One of the key technologies in this architecture is Hibernate, on top of which Grails builds its GORM (Grails Object Relational Mapping) model layer. This provides Grails a persistence solution.

    Published with the developer in mind, firstPress technical briefs explore emerging technologies that have the potential to be critical for tomorrow’s industry. Apress keeps developers one step ahead by presenting key information as early as possible in a PDF of 150 pages or less. Explore the future through Apress with Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL

    This firstPress book covers Grails persistence with GORM, from defining your first model to the nature of transactions and advanced Hibernate querying. Other APIs and tools such as GSQL (Groovy SQL) are covered as well, as needed, to empower your Grails persistence efforts.


    What you’ll learn

    • Extend the Grails web framework into a broader, semi–enterprise framework by including and integrating Hibernate–based Java persistence, known as GORM.
    • Use mappings to customize default behaviors and work with legacy schemas.
    • Use constraints to define your object once and have those constraints enforced both in code and at the database level.
    • Use advanced features of GORM and Hibernate Query Language (HQL) to simplify database querying and report generation.
    • Debug and tune trips for GORM and Hibernate.
    • Fill in the gaps with GSQL.

    Who is this book for

    This title is for those who have committed to dedicating some time to mastering Grails and are looking to move beyond the basics, and are especially interested in Grails and Groovy persistence for some limited transaction handling and/or accessing databases.