Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes


1:00 - 1:50pm on Friday, October 15 2010 in RAC B

In this session Jeff Brown, core member of the Grails development team and a senior engineer at SpringSource, will demonstrate how the basics of Twitter can be built using Grails and JMS in only 40 minutes. A fast paced and code-driven presentation, Jeff will build a Twitter-like application from scratch using Grails and its rapid application development capability. By bringing together Spring, JMS and Java persistence techniques, Jeff will also provide advanced tips and techniques for constructing Grails applications that can be deployed on to the Java EE platform.

Attendees will learn:
  • How to construct a basic Grails project with Spring-based domain objects
  • How to incorporate messaging and persistence into your Grails application
  • How to adapt basic configuration to suit the needs of your application