thejavajar

On March 31st, 2009 I discussed Spring’s dynamic language support with a focus on Groovy and JRuby at the Tampa JUG. There were quite a few people in attendance who were interested in leveraging the power and simplicity of Spring and Groovy. The presentation material can be found here and the demo Web application can be found here. Thanks to all who attended, the Tampa JUG’s sponsors GCA and Hudson and Vladimir Vivien.

Kevin Barfield, from JBoss, will be presenting at the Tampa JUG this month. The topic will be “Developing A JEE-Based SOA Architecture using JBoss”.

I am sure there will be a bit of why JBoss is the best choice talk going on, but it will also be a great opportunity to see what JBoss offers from an ESB/JEE/SOA point of view and hang out with some passionate Java folk. I am extremely interested in what JBoss has going on and I will be at GCA on January 27th, 2009.

More information can be found here:
http://www.tampajug.org

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 here and our JUG demo here.

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.