Grails For Spring Developers
Published June 22nd, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Beside doing an overview of the Grails framework, Jeff Brown shows how to write a Spring-integrated application in Grails. Some of the topics covered are: Spring Beans in Groovy, DI in Grails, Grails and Spring MVC, Database transaction management and remoting with Spring in Grails.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Grails-For-Spring-Developers
Grails Plugin Testing
Published May 3rd, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
In the last year or two, there has been a veritable explosion in the number of Grails plugins out there. Without proper testing, however, they run the risk of falling into disuse as users avoid them. In this interactive session, we will use several techniques to test different aspects of a Grails plugin. This will include functional testing via Selenium RC and testing of scripts.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/grails-plugin-testing
Christian Dupuis on SpringSource Tool Suite
Published April 12th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Christian Dupuis, Principal Engineer with SpringSource, discusses SpringSource Tool Suite’s Groovy, Grails and Roo support, Cloud Foundry integration, and future plans for the product.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/christian-dupuis-sts
Choosing a Dependency Injection Style
Published March 15th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment
In this podcast, Dr. Dave Syer talks on the recently released Spring 3.0 and Grails 1.2, the options for configuring dependency injection are multiplying. He talks on the options available which include XML, Groovy, @Autowire, @Inject, @Configuration, component scanning, to list only the newest and the most popular and discusses the advantages and disadvantages and how you can choose the right tool for the job.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/choosing-a-dependency-injection-style
Grails Internals
Published March 1st, 2010 Under Architecture, Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Many people know that Grails is based on Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, etc., but how are all these tools and libraries knitted together? How, when it comes down to it, does Grails work? This talk will cover several areas of Grails, looking at the most important classes and how they fit together. Find out about the build system, plugins, GORM, and HTTP request handling, amongst others.
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/grails-internals
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