The Grails Plug-in System Part II: Plug into productivity

Part II of the Grails Plug-in System will pick up where Part I left off.

An extended example of how to write your own Grails plug-in. As part of the journey you'll learn how to customize the Grails build system, participate in runtime Spring configuration, add new persistence methods that work with Hibernate and enhance your existing classes through Grails' advanced Groovy Meta-programming system.

Featured Speakers

Paul King

co-author of "Groovy in Action"

Paul King leads ASERT, an organization based in Brisbane, Australia which provides software development, training and mentoring services to customers wanting to embrace new technologies, harness best practices and innovate. He has been contributing to open source projects for nearly 20 years and is an active committer on numerous projects including Groovy. Paul speaks at international conferences, publishes in softw.. More »

Guillaume LaForge

Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource

As Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource, Guillaume Laforge is the official Groovy Project Manager, and the spec lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request that standardizes the Groovy dynamic language. He is also a frequent conference speaker presenting Groovy and Grails at JavaOne, SpringOne, QCon, the Sun TechDays, and JavaPolis. Guillaume also co-authored Groovy in Action along with Dierk KÃ¶nig. Befor.. More »

Mark Thomas

Senior Software Engineer, SpringSource.

Mark Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer with SpringSource. At SpringSource Mark leads the integration of Tomcat with tc Server and has also had a hand in the development and integration of the additional serviceability functionality. Mark has been using and developing Apache Tomcat for more than five years. He became involved in the development of Tomcat when he needed better control over the SSL configuration t.. More »

Burt Beckwith

Senior Java Developer and Grails Expert

Burt Beckwith is a Java developer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including biotech, travel, e-learning, social networking, and financial services. For the past two years he's been working with Grails and Groovy full-time. Along the way he's released five Grails plugins and is the primary developer of the Spring Security plugin. He was the technical editor for Grails in Action. More »

Arjen Poutsma

Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services

Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET. Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations. Arjen is the founder and the pro.. More »