Greater Atlanta Software Symposium
September 21 - 23, 2012
Grails Workshop
Sunday - Sep 23 2:15 PM EDT - Washington/Jefferson
Build a Grails application from start to finish in this half-day workshop. We'll start with domain classes, apply constraints, add controllers and services, apply both unit and integration tests, and then add additional functionality through plugins.
This rapid introduction to Grails will take advantage of the newest features of Grails 2.0 using the interactive scripts and db console. In addition to building an application, existing samples will be reviewed as a source of good practices and plugins.
Some knowledge of Groovy is assumed but not required.
Kenneth Kousen
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Workshop Requirements
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
Software:
- JDK 1.6+ (I'm using 1.7; 1.8 not yet supported)
- Grails 2.2.3 (any 2+ is fine), available from http://grails.org
Unzip the Grails distribution, set a GRAILS_HOME variable to its location, and add the bin subdirectory to your path.
As an alternative installation mechanism, please consider GVM, located at http://gvmtool.net . That will allow you to switch Grails version with a single command. It works for Macs and Unix flavors, as well as Windows through Cygwin.
No IDE is required, but if you want to use one, consider Groovy and Grails Tool Suite. The current version is 3.3.0 and can be downloaded from http://grails.org/products/ggts. IntelliJ IDEA has Grails support in its Ultimate edition only. NetBeans also has Grails support.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.