Extending Grails - The Plugin System

Grails is a super powerful framework for building applications for the Java platform. Grails addresses the pain points that the other web applications frameworks leave you with. This session covers the details you need to further extend Grails to help Grails help you in your environment.

Since 2006 Grails has had a really powerful and flexible plugin system. Much of the functionality in Grails itself is implemented as plugins. Grails makes it easy for you to further extend the framework to address needs in your environment. This session will detail how some of the core plugins work. The session will also cover all of the information needed to customize existing behavior or introduce whole new capabilities to the framework through the plugin system and other techniques.

About Jeff Brown

Grails co-founder and OCI Grails Practice Lead, Jeff Scott Brown has been doing JVM application development for as long as the JVM has existed. He has spent most of the last decade focused specifically on work related to the Grails framework. Jeff co-authored The Definitive Guide to Grails Second Edition and The Definitive Guide to Grails 2, in partnership with Grails co-founder and OCI Grails Team Lead, Graeme Rocher. Jeff is also a regular public speaker on Grails, Groovy, and other JVM-related technologies.

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