Just finished my talk on Grails at JAOO. It went very well, the room was packed out with people having to stand at the back. Grails was extremely well received and the audience enthusiastic.
The conference seems interesting, there aren't many low level technical talks. Most talks seem to be design or patterns or enterprise architecture talks. There are also many .NET talks, so its quite a diverse conference. An interesting concept.
JAOO uses a system of rating talks with red, yellow and green papers depending if the talk was rubbish, average or good. I managed 15 yellows, 98 greens and no reds. Not bad :-)
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Hi graeme,
I was attending you talk and it was quite nice to hear about the advances in grails.
I liked that you kept the pace up and talked quickly. Some speakers have overly long pauses and take forever to get to a point.
It was nice to see the "wow" effect when you demoed the easo of persisting a domain class ("Book") just by adding the "scaffold" to the controller.
A good selling you made was that the migration path is much easier for a java developer and that the integration with java is even tighter and more transparent than in JRuby (at least it was last time i checked out JRuby).
Being a performance geek myself, I like the fact that groovy compiles to byte code and in principle will run as fast as java, when the compilers mature. Most other of the new frameworks run on interpreted code, which is by default quite a bit slower.
I have a few questions though:
1) I'm trying to convince the crowd here at "home" to go groovy and grails. Any chance i could get your slides for internal use?
2) Any plans for "upgrading" the XFire component to it's succesor Apache CXF?
2)
Hi iznobad
1) send me a mail to graemerocher _at_ yahoo.co.uk and i'll send you the slides
2) the xfire plugin is a plugin so not part of core grails, the author has plans to make a separate CXF plugin i believe
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