Groovy Web Services, Part I: REST
Groovy has excellent networking capabilities and is great at processing XML, which makes it a natural for working with RESTful web services.
In this presentation, we'll access multiple web services using Groovy, ranging from Google Charts to Amazon books to Twitter and more. We'll then build and deploy a RESTful web service, both with Groovy alone and using Grails.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is the President of Kousen IT, Inc., through which he does technical training, mentoring, and consulting in all areas of Java and XML. He is the author of the O'Reilly screencast "Up and Running Groovy", and the upcoming Manning book about Java/Groovy integration, entitled "Making Java Groovy".
He has been a tech reviewer for several books on software development. Over the past decade he's taught thousands of developers in business and industry. He is also an adjunct professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute site in Hartford, CT. His academic background includes two BS degrees from M.I.T., an MS and a Ph.D. from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I.
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