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RESTful Web Services in Grails

Starting in Grails 2.3, a series of annotations and underlying infrastructure has been added to Grails to make it easy to develop RESTful web services. The refactoring of the framework planned for Grails 3.0 will make the process even more powerful. This talk will review and demonstrate those changes.

Topics ranging from designing RESTful controllers, transforming objects to and from JSON form, and hypermedia implementations using the HAL specification will be discussed and demonstrated.


Kenneth Kousen

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

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