Graeme Rocher
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · May 4 - 6, 2007
Grails Project Lead - OCI Grails Team
Graeme Rocher is co-founder of the Grails framework and co-author of The Definitive Guide to Grails, serves as Project Lead for the OCI Grails team. Graeme has worked in the software development field for more than 20 years and has expertise in Grails, Groovy, Web Development, Dynamic Languages, and the JVM.
Find out more at ociweb.com/grails and grails.org.
Presentations
The Grails Plug-in System: Plug into productivity
Grails is more than just a web framework, it is a complete platform and API for runtime configuration. This talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, will demonstrate Grails' modular architecture and how to hook into runtime configuration to adapt your application based on its environment and/or the presence of other plug-ins.
Grails: Spring & Hibernate Development Re-invented
Spring & Hibernate development, although hailed in the past as being “lightweight”, is still an XML-centric, configuration heavy approach to web application development. In this talk, by Grails project lead Graeme Rocher, you will discover how you can leverage Spring & Hibernate without ever having to write a line of configuration!
GORM - Object Relational Mapping with Hibernate De-mystified
Hibernate is an immensely powerful ORM layer with an array of features and mapping options which comes at the cost of complexity. The web application framework Grails ships with an ORM layer that builds of top of Hibernate, but eliminates much of the complexity through clever use of convention and the dynamic features of the Groovy language. Known as GORM, it offers a convention-based mapping strategy that hooks into the Hibernate configuration model and provides an abstraction layer above Hibernate with powerful features like Groovy builders for Criteria, dynamic finders and transaction management through closures.