Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith

Core Member of the Grails Development Team


Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins. Burt is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups where he shares his passion for Grails and other Groovy-based technologies, in particular those that are related to persistence, security, and performance. He is the author of "Programming Grails" and blogs at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/




Blog

This Week in Grails (2013-17)

Posted Tuesday, May 7, 2013

We released Grails 2.1.5 and Grails more »

This Week in Grails (2013-15)

Posted Saturday, April 20, 2013

The Groovy team released Groovy 2.0.8 and more »

This Week in Grails (2013-14)

Posted Sunday, April 14, 2013

SpringSource has moved from VMware to EMC as part of Pivotal. Check out Adrian Colyer’s blog post for information about how this will affect Grails, Groovy, and Spring and what the future looks like for us. The Groovy team did an extensive intervimore »

Grails and Netty

Posted Monday, April 1, 2013

With all of the buzz about the Play vs Grails Smackdown at Devoxx last week, and this framework benchmark comparison from TechEmpower, I thought it would be interesting to look again at Rossen Stoyanchev’s demo project that integrates Spring MVC wmore »

This Week in Grails (2013-12)

Posted Saturday, March 30, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-11)

Posted Monday, March 18, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-10)

Posted Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-09)

Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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Grails Dropwizard Plugin

Posted Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-08)

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-07)

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2013

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This Week in Grails (2013-06)

Posted Monday, February 11, 2013

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Presentations

Grails Spring Security Plugins

In this talk we'll look at the Spring Security Core plugin and its dependent plugins. The core plugin provides all of the standard functionality you expect from a security plugin (URL security, users, roles, form-based authentication, etc.) and extension more »

Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring

You've used GORM in Grails apps, you've written custom criteria and HQL queries, and now you're ready to take database access in Grails to the next level.more »

Deploying Grails Applications to Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is a revolutionary open-source PaaS service from VMware and Grails applications have first-class support on the platform.more »

Grails Spring Security Plugins

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Burt Beckwith By Burt Beckwith

In this talk we'll look at the Spring Security Core plugin and its dependent plugins. The core plugin provides all of the standard functionality you expect from a security plugin (URL security, users, roles, form-based authentication, etc.) and extension plugins add extra functionality such as OpenID support, LDAP authentication, object and method security with ACLs, and more.



We'll look at the various plugins and create some sample applications to see how easy it is to secure a Grails application with Spring Security.


Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring

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Burt Beckwith By Burt Beckwith

You've used GORM in Grails apps, you've written custom criteria and HQL queries, and now you're ready to take database access in Grails to the next level.



In this talk we'll look at some advanced GORM topics including using database views to map domain classes to multiple tables, writing a Configuration subclass to fine-tune domain class mappings and customize Hibernate beyond what GORM mappings provide, how to create immutable read-only domain classes, and some tips for monitoring database access.


Deploying Grails Applications to Cloud Foundry

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Burt Beckwith By Burt Beckwith

Cloud Foundry is a revolutionary open-source PaaS service from VMware and Grails applications have first-class support on the platform.



In this talk we'll look at the features of the Grails cloud-foundry and cloud-foundry-ui plugins and sample applications using supported services like MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ. You'll be amazed at how easy it is to build and deploy a cloud-based application with Cloud Foundry and Grails.