Dave Klein
Gateway Software Symposium
St. Louis · May 21 - 23, 2010
Developer Advocate with Confluent
After 28 years as a developer, architect, project manager (recovered), author, trainer, conference organizer, and homeschooling dad, Dave Klein landed his dream job as a developer advocate at Confluent. Dave is marveling in and eager to help others explore the amazing world of event streaming with Apache Kafka.
Presentations
Grails Deep Dive
You've heard about how easy it is to build web apps with Grails. Maybe you've even seen the simple CRUD app in a blink of an eye, but do you want to see what Grails is really capable of? Then join us as we walk through the construction of a real web application with this powerful framework. Along the way we'll see how to take advantage of Grails' features like GORM, service classes, custom tags, and URL mapping.
Grails Takes Care of the REST
Representational State Transfer (REST) is fast becoming recognized as the preferred web services architecture in many situations. REST provides a loosely coupled way for applications to communicate with each other across the web. The simplicity and expressiveness of REST make it a perfect fit for Grails. Grails provides a full stack framework with which to build RESTful applications, complete with persistence, a transactional service layer, logging, security services, and more. Whether you're building applications for a service oriented architecture or just want to add some integration points to your standard web apps, you can relax and let Grails take care of the REST.