The Groovy Web: groovlets, Micro-frameworks, and Grails
Build web applications that support both Java and Groovy. This talk reviews many ways that Groovy makes it easy to build web applications, from basic groovlets, to simple frameworks like RatPack, to the major combination of Spring and Hibernate that is Grails.
Groovy supports web development in many ways. Groovylets are built into the language, and support template-based views. RatPack is a “routing” framework similar to Sinatra from the Ruby world. Grails, one of the “killer apps” for Groovy, combines Spring and Hibernate in a plugin-based, convention-over-configuration framework that makes creating sophisticated web applications easy. In this talk, we'll review them all.
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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