Reminder: March Java User Group Meeting

[Scott Seighman]

Reminder for next weeks meeting (March 11th), great topic!

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.

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Scott Seighman
Partner Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems
877.450.8885
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