theJavaJar.com

Vladimir Vivien and I had a great time Tuesday night at the Tampa JUG presenting an introduction to Grails. We stepped away from the standard Tampa JUG presentation format and only put together a few presentation slides and then did some live coding. We created a small Grails application from scratch, working with just a few domain objects to demonstrate contraints, relationships and Grails’ convention. I worked from the command line and with TextMate and Vladimir worked with IntelliJ and the JetGroovy plugin. I think we had a great group of developers in attendance who were interested in what Groovy/Grails has to offer. We had a lot of great questions and I know some of our attendees were really impressed with how quickly we got up and running with our Grails application. Even though we went over our normal time limit, we didn’t have enough time to really get into all the details and features of Grails but I know some of the Tampa JUG members that were in attendance are at home or at work creating their own Grails projects. I have posted the slides and our JUG demo here.

It is pretty incredible to read this morning on groovyblogs.org that G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails, has been aquired by SpringSource, the company behind Spring. The press release is here.

It is going to be a great fit because both companies have succeeded in changing the face of Enterprise Java. Congratulations to SpringSource and G2One.

This month at the Tampa JUG November 18th meeting, Vladimir Vivien and I will be teaming up to put together a presentation on Grails and Grails Plugins. Our plan is to limit the number of presentation slides and really focus on a nice demo that demonstrates how easy it is to get work done with Grails. Spread the word and come out to the Tampa JUG’s November meeting to get a crash course on Grails and Grails Plugins.