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!

The talk will demonstrate how Grails handles all the heavy lifting by performing runtime configuration based on conventions for you leaving you to focus on your business logic. At the same time you'll discover that none of what Spring & Hibernate provides has been taken away allowing you to leverage what is great about this frameworks from using AOP to mapping onto a legacy database system.

Session Topics:

• The Grails Architecture Overview
• Grails & Spring
• Re-using existing Spring services
• Leveraging Spring AOP
• Lightweight Hibernate with Grails
• Using EJB3 annotations or Hibernate XML to map onto legacy system

About Graeme Rocher

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.

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