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Sarasota JUG: Developing Web Applications with Grails
Event Details
Time: March 24, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
Location: Community Foundation of Sarasota
Street: 2635 Fruitville Rd
City/Town: Sarasota
Website or Map: http://www.cfsarasota.org
Event Type: meeting
Organized By: David Moskowitz
Latest Activity: Mar 24, 2010
Event Description
This month, the Sarasota Java Users group explores Grails. Grails is a web application development platform that uses the Groovy language. Grails runs on top of technologies you know and love such as Java, Spring, and Hibernate.
This presentation is about introducing Grails and some of the benefits it provides. Ravi will be presenting the following sub topics:
1. Why Grails?
2. A simplistic web site in 5 minutes, maybe 2 :)
3. Grails is based on groovy: so a brief tour of Groovy features that makes coding super fun!
4. Convention over configuration.
5. Scaffolding.
6. Dynamic methods based on Model. No need of DAOs.
7. Easy database integration
8. Integration with Hibernate/Spring outside project
Our speaker, Ravi Hasija, is a software engineer and has been actively involved in web development for past 4 years, Ravi currently working at Andesa where he uses GWT, Hibernate, and other JavaEE related technologies (JSPs, EJB etc)
Food will be provided by Blink Technologies
Blink Technologies is a Sarasota based web shop established in 2005 offering RIA web development, design,
linux hosting and networking services.
The event will be hosted by Community Foundation of Sarasota, located at 2635 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL 34237, which is west of exit 210 off I75.
Meeting Schedule:
6-6:45 PM: Networking
6:45 - 8:00 PM: Presentation
Please RSVP to CodeTown if you plan on attending.
All are welcome.
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Comment by Tim Crowley on March 23, 2010 at 11:28am
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I'm looking forward to it. But I'm telling ya... if it takes more than 6 minutes to create the site, I'm LEAVING!
Okay... not really. :-)
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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