Park Bench Discussion

Our panel of experts discuss the day's talks and take questions from the floor.

groovy grails

Building an ecommerce business with gr8 technologies in Latin America

Featuring Domingo Suarez Torres

In this session, Domingo will talk about the experience acquired building an in-house solution for ecommerce in Mexico, using gr8 technologies (Groovy, Grails, GPars, Gradle).

Testing Gaelyk applications

I will start with showing how to unit test Gaelyk groovlets using gaelyk-spock library. Then we will focus on the latest facilitations of writing functional tests for Gaelyk applications using Geb framework. Learn how to modify the state of the application under test using Gaelyk Remote and which...

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User Interaction and Groovy DSL

Featuring The 3 Musket33rs

Based on a real life project concerning more than 2 millions scripts, we will show during this session how you can build an fluent and powerful DSL with Groovy. Using techniques like BaseScript, AST, bindings and command chaining, we will explain how to implement a DSL that produce an user...

groovy grails dsl ast

Securing Grails Applications

Featuring Burt Beckwith

When you think about securing a Grails application, you probably think of the Spring Security and Shiro plugins. But these plugins only control access to your pages and objects - what about guarding agains cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and SQL injection attacks.

grails spring csrf sql owasp

Why Groovy when Java 8 (or Scala), or…

Featuring Russel Winder

…why Groovy has to evolve and market itself in an ever changing world if it is to remain relevant. Java 8 will be a revolution in the JVM-based community, it will bring lambda expressions and a whole new library. Scala is very proud of being where Java is trying to go. Many organizations are...

groovy scala java java-8 grails

Reactive Grails - Event oriented architecture made easy

Featuring Stéphane Maldini

Let's talk hype stuff, let's shake our brains around this idea of loosely coupling things in software. Join this session if you are after ways to maximize your grails use, user experience and smoothly integrate your app in a wider architecture. Join this talk if you are maximizing your...

asynchronous-processing grails groovy rest

Contributing Back To Grails

Featuring Bobby Warner

So you've read the books, built some websites and maybe even released a plugin or two... great! Now it's time to take your skills to the next level by contributing back to the community! This talk will go though the process of getting started contributing to both Grails source code and...

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Groovier testing with Spock

Featuring Robert Fletcher

Spock is a powerful and expressive testing language built on top of Groovy. This talk will be a live-coding demonstration where I will take a small Java application with a set of JUnit tests and refactor the tests into Spock specifications. I'll show the features of Spock; its concise syntax,...

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Debugging Grails Database Performance

Featuring Tom Dunstan

Knowing what your GORM query will do to your database can be difficult for even the most seasoned Hibernate expert. This talk will demonstrate the use of a grails plugin to deep dive right down to the individual SQL queries used to render a given page, so that you can see exactly what is going...

database-performance grails groovy dbms