2010-03-18 Into to Groovy on Grails
Location
Versatile\, Mechanicsburg, PA.
Agenda
| 6:00 pm |
Food & drink, Compliments of Versatile |
| 6:30 pm |
Main Session - Introduction to Groovy on Grails
Speaker: Gordon Dickens, Consultant & Trainer for Chariot Solutions
Gordon has worked in the IT consulting realm for over 15 years. His recent background includesspeaking at the recent Groovy and Grails seminar, experience designing and developing a Groovy on Grails application for a chemical company in addition to OSGi, Spring and Hibernate development. He has over 20 years as an experienced technical instructor in various technology paradigms.
Gordon has applied various technologies including the design, development and testing of applications, object and database modeling within many sectors including Financial, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and more. He enjoys learning new technologies and sharing knowledge with others. Gordon is actively participating in several technical book reviews.
Abstract:
Grails is a rapid application development framework built upon the de-facto standard open source tools that are typically used in java-based web application development. Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, log4J, SiteMesh, Quartz, Tomcat and Ant. Groovy is a dynamically typed language that simplifies much of the tedium of Java development.
In this Introductory presentation, also will present the Grails Framework for rapid development of Web MVC applications. He will discuss the benefits of using the Groovy language, how it simplifies coding and why the learning curve for Groovy is very short for Java developers. Also, illustrate how existing Java libraries are easily integrated.
After this presentation you will discover the simplicity of packaging and deploying a web application (WAR). By using the Groovy on Grails developers can have a web application framed and packaged in minutes. |
| 7:40 pm |
Open Q&A |
| 8:00 pm |
Meeting Adjournment |
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