Reminder: Java User Group Meeting Tonight

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See you tonight!

The agenda:

Eat, Drink, Network (5:30-6:00 PM)*
Previous Meeting Recap, New Business (6:00-6:15PM)
Overview of Groovy and Grails


Location:
3 Summit Park Drive
Lower Auditorium
Independence, OH 44131


Overview of Groovy and Grails*

Java has become the dominate software development platform today. But
unfortunately being over a decade old, the Java language and many of
the
associated web frameworks are starting to show their age.
Organizations
are finding it difficult to be agile and productive with these
technologies. However with large infrastructure, process and training
investments in the Java platform, organizations can't justify start
over
from scratch with a new platform.

Enter Groovy and Grails. Groovy is a dynamic language built on top of
the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with copy and paste compatibility with
the Java language but also contains modern day language features like
closures and properties. Grails is a web framework and development
platform built on top of standard Java frameworks like Spring and
Hibernate but simplifies them by using convention over configuration.
This combination makes web development on the Java Platform extremely
agile while leveraging current investments and the large Java
ecosystem.


Our Speakers

Christopher M. Judd

Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd
Solutions, LLC, an international speaker, an open source evangelist,
the
Central Ohio Java Users Group leader, and the coauthor of Beginning
Groovy and Grails (Apress 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a
Budget
(Apress, 2003). He has spent 12 years architecting and developing
software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including
insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and transportation. His
current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java
EE,
Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME), mobile technologies, and
related
technologies.


Jim Shingler

Jim Shingler is Lead Technical Architect for Big Lots, co-founder of
open source project FallME, and co-author of "Beginning Groovy and
Grails". The focus of his career has been using leading-edge
technology
to develop IT solutions for the insurance, financial services, and
manufacturing industries. He has 11 years of large-scale Java
experience
and significant experience in distributed and relational
technologies.