Racing with Rhinos: Using Springs and Grails to Achieve Competitive Velocity

One of the holy grails of an enterprise architecture team is to provide a light-weight development framework that can be used to quickly build first-to-market applications while still providing a migration path for these applications to a more robust corporate enterprise stack. (e.g. J2EE).

This talk will look at how you can leverage Grails, Groovy and Spring to build applications that can start small and grow to integrate with your enterprise systems.

Until recently, this type of development stack has been unattainable. However, with the explosion of development frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Grails this type of flexibility is within reach of any development organization.

This talk will look at how you can leverage Grails, Groovy and Spring to build applications that can start small and grow to integrate with your enterprise systems. Some of the topics covered include: key design patterns that should be leveraged to enable flexibility in Grails, how to use Spring within Grails to provide a layer of abstraction to move to a full J2EE stack and using Web Services (SOAP and REST) to provide easy access to corporate data sources.

About John Carnell

John Carnell is the manager of Platform Engineering for Thrivent Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company. In addition, John is a prolific speaker and writer. He has spoken at national conferences, such as Internet Expo, the Data Warehousing Institute, and numerous No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

John has authored, coauthored, and been a technical reviewer for a number of technical books and industry publications. His latest book, Pro Apache Struts with Ajax, was published in late 2006.

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