Keynote - Groovy, state of the union

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

In the same vein as last year Groovy Grails eXchange's presentation, Guillaume will update everybody on the key highlights of recent releases, the latest features the Groovy team has been working on in Groovy 1.7, and give a preview of what to be expected in Groovy 1.8, as well as entertain...

Rich Grails UIs with Canoo RIA Suite

Featuring Dierk Koenig

Learn how to easily write a Grails web application that appears to your users as if it was a desktop application. To this end, we will use the Grails ULC plugin and the UlcBuilder.

Enter The Gradle

Featuring Peter Niederwieser

Gradle allows you to describe your build using a rich, easily extendable build language based on Groovy. It provides compelling solutions for many of the big pain points that exist with current build systems. This session will be mostly driven by live demos.

Testing dynamic websites with Geb: a newbie's perspective

Featuring Tomas Lin

Geb is a new functional testing framework based on Groovy that provides Page Object support, a Query-like syntax and powerful webdriver integration. But can we use it for real projects? In this talk, Tomas will share his experience using and learning Geb to drive the development of a brand new...

Gaelyk, sky-rocketing Groovy into the Google cloud!

Featuring Guillaume LaForge

Guillaume will present Gaelyk, a lightweight Groovy toolkit for easily developing Groovy applications to be deployed on Google App Engine Java. We'll learn more about what the toolkit provides, how to leverage it for your own needs through some demos.

High volume, scalable Ajax with Grails

Featuring David Dawson

Implementing a large, hopefully popular, application, involves more than just pretty pictures and some ajax magic. Threads, latency, bandwidth and all the rest, need to be thought about before it's unleashed on the world. In this talk David Dawson will demonstrate different approaches on how...

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Groovy Solutions for Data Flows

Featuring Georgios Flouris and Raffaele Cigni

EPO has developed a Data Flow Language (DFL, a Groovy domain specific language) to leverage similarities in the processes for communicating with each individual country’s patent office, and transform them into a single, universal process.

GGUG: Building Grails projects with Gradle

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

During this session, members of the Groovy & Grails User Group will join us for some learning, discussion, drinks and pizza. Peter plans to do a session on building Grails projects with Gradle natively based on his experimental work, which should kick off an interesting discussion about using...

Keynote - In Search of the Grail of Developer Productivity - A Grails Roadmap Update

Featuring Graeme Rocher

In his keynote Graeme will do a review of 2010 and discuss what is coming up in the Grails world in 2011

Get the message? Grails Integration Patterns with Event Driven Messaging

Featuring Russ Miles

Grails and Groovy applications don't live in a vacuum, and nowhere is this more apparent in enterprise software. In this talk, Russ Miles will demonstrate a collection of common enterprise integration patterns and how they can be implemented effectively, easily and fluently in Grails.

What's hot in Grails land

Featuring Peter Ledbrook

There are many plugins in the Grails ecosystem and it's tough to keep up to date with what's happening out there. In this talk, Peter will look at some key plugins that everyone should know about and when to use them. He will also cover some core Grails features that aren't well known...

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Design for simplicity

Featuring Glenn Saqui and Dave Stott

Serving 6 million hits a day with 30 editors constantly editing content can be complex. Dave and Glenn come from two different teams within Sky who dealt with the problem differently. They will discuss their architecture and how Grails enabled both teams to achieve their goal.

Introducing the new static resources framework for Grails

Featuring Marc Palmer

Marc will take you through the new Resources plugin and its companion plugins, introducing the concept of declarative static resource dependencies and all the smarts that come with this. You'll see cleaner GSPs and layouts, smarter integration with plugins that expose static resources, and...

Grails Sans SQL

Featuring Graeme Rocher

Grails provides solid and mature support for SQL databases, but what about the upcoming range of NoSQL data stores? In this talk Graeme will discuss how Grails can be backed onto alternative data store such as key/value, document and graph based data stores."

Griffon in real life

Featuring Sébastien Blanc

Griffon is an amazing framework but when do you really need it? Nowadays, who wants to build old-fashioned Swing Applications? In this talk Sébastien will present two success stories where Griffon was applied successfully and increased the team productivity. The purpose of this talk is to show...

Grails & HTML5

Featuring Sébastien Blanc

HTML5 is hot and Grails is the most wonderful Web Framework of the world, How can these two entities fit together ? During this talk I will show you how some "hidden" HTML5 features (offline caching, Web SQL, Geolocation) can be integrated with Grails. I will also cover how the combo...

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2015

Two days in London

Want to hear the latest happenings in the world of Groovy and Grails? Want to stay ahead of the curve and discover the roadmap for 2015 from core committer and Groovy authority Guillaume Laforge? Then grab yourself a ticket to the annual gathering of the Groovy and Grails community in London.

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2014

Two days in London

The Groovy and Grails eXchange has been a cornerstone conference for the London and European community since it's birth nearly 8 years ago. This year, we explore the latest innovations in the community, how you can optimise the languages powerful features, plus meet others in the community...

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2013

Two days in London

Want to make yourself more employable by big name companies such as Sky, Wired.com and Linkedin who are implementing Groovy & Grails?

Need to keep up with the latest industry developments in object-oriented programming to stay ahead of the game?

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012

Two days in London

Join Skills Matter for the fifth annual Groovy & Grails eXchange 2012. Taking place over the 13th & 14th December the eXchange will be held at The Crypt in Clerkenwell.

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011

Two days in London

Thanks to speakers, attendees and sponsors, Skills Matter's 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange was a great success. There was a real buzz throughout the two days, fostered by some great talks, open-space discussions, brainstorming and a very productive and creative Hackaton! We have...

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009

Two days in London

Following on from the success in previous years this conference, which will be held on Thursday 10th December 2009 brings together the leading innovators in the Groovy & Grails community, including Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher, the leads on Groovy and Grails projects respectively, for...

Three days in London

Skills Matter are pleased to have organised the First Grails eXchange 2007! This 3-day event held in Oct 2007 was a great opportunity to get a heads-up on the latest developments in the world of Groovy & Grails and to meet interesting speakers and fellow Groovy and Grails developers.