Flex for Grails Developers

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” (Tom Robbins)

Grails is a powerful server-side web framework based on the Model/View/Controller (MVC) design principle. Flex is a popular Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework for building client-side applications. Come see how these two best-of-breed frameworks work together.

In this talk, you'll see how easy it is to bootstrap a Grails application using the default Groovy Server Pages (GSP) view technology. Then you'll get a thorough introduction to the Flex framework. Seeing both view technologies side-by-side should help you see the strengths and weaknesses in each approach.

About Scott Davis

Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java development.

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