SPRINGONE 2GX 2012: THE SPRING, GROOVY, GRAILS, & CLOUD EVENT OF THE YEAR!


Brian Saville

Lead Engineer at Adaptive Computing

Brian Saville
Brian Saville spent the majority of his life pretending he did not want to be a software engineer. After a BS in Computer Engineering and a MS in IT, he found that he just wanted to write applications. He has spent several years scripting and writing web applications as a system administrator and web developer, but has most enjoyed working with web frameworks such as Grails. After being introduced to the project a year and a half ago, Brian has become an active member of the Grails community, writing several plugins and frequenting the mailing lists. He is currently the lead engineer for a major API integration application written in Grails at Adaptive Computing.

Presentations

Building an Integration Platform with Grails and Gradle

Due to increasing demand for a common interface as well as extensibility for our core software at Adaptive Computing, we have developed a single point of integration using Grails and Gradle in the form of a RESTful web application called Moab Web Services (MWS). As a part of these efforts, we developed a plugin platform that allows us to dynamically modify the behavior of MWS, even after being deployed on a client system and without restarting the application. We tackled numerous obstacles and questions during the development of the platform including JVM classloading, plugin services, plugin conventions, inter-plugin communication, plugin development, configuration and metadata, testing using the Spock framework, exposing plugin web services, and management via a web interface and RESTful API.

In this presentation, we will discuss these problems, how we overcame them, and how the solutions could be applied in more general cases.





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