Grails 3 For Spring Boot Developers

Grails 3 is a high productivity web framework for The JVM. Grails 3 is built on top of Spring Boot. This session provides an introduction and overview of the framework for developers who are familiar with Spring.

Because Grails 3 is built on top of Spring Boot, anything that you can do in Spring Boot you can also do in Grails 3. In addition to all of Spring Boot's capabilities, Grails 3 offers a whole lot of additional features and benefits that contribute to code simplicity and to developer productivity. This session will highlight many of the features offered by the framework which make Grails 3 a great framework for taking advantage of everything that Spring has to offer while also taking advantage of everything that a powerful and flexibly convention over configuration framework has to offer.

No prior Grails knowledge is necessary.

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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