*Note the changed location.* Subject:* Groovy and Grails*, coding tools that the campus identity management team has been using in the implementation of the Berkeley Person Registry.
Presenter: *Soeren Glasius*, Identity Management Web App Lead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part One: Advantages of Groovy and Grails Day: Wednesday, April 22 (normal Micronet meeting day) Time: 10:30-noon Place: *Barrows Hall, Room 60* Wednesday's session will showcase advantages of using the Groovy language and the Grails framework. Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities. It runs on the Java platform (JVM) and is in many ways a superset of Java. The learning curve for the average Java coder is described as a "small speed bump" while the powers are described as "Java on Steroids". Grails is a web-framework built on the "shoulders of giants". It acts as an easy, yet powerful layer on top of Spring MVC, Hibernate and Sitemesh. It aims at developer speed by applying "convention over configuration", sensible defaults and easy access to common functionality. It integrates easily with application containers (like Tomcat) on the JVM. Grails has a lively plugin community, where a wide variety of common functionality is captured. Previous knowledge of Java, C, C++, PHP, Python or other programming languages is an advantage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part Two: Groovy and Grails demo session Day: Thursday: April 23 Time: 10:30-noon Place University Hall, Room 150 This presentation is a follow-up to “Advantages of Groovy and Grails.” In this presentation there will be no slides, just code. The first part of the demo will show examples of Groovy vs. Java code. In the second part, Soeren will create a small Grails application and secure it with a CAS SSO login. Vivian Sophia Berkeley IT Gold Service Team Lead (CSS) Micronet Community of Practice Coordinator University of California, Berkeley 310B Durant Hall (510) 541-6120
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