Intro to Web Development with Compojure

Compojure is a web framework, inspired by Sinatra and implemented in Clojure. In this session, you will learn:

Why functional languages are a good fit for web development. (It's simple, really: a web endpoint is a function of URLs, headers, bodies, and sessions. Everything else is noise and distraction.)
How function composition simplifies adding services. Compojure middlewares are simply functions that can wrap existing functions to add additional services.
The usual suspects: APIs for dealing with headers, bodies, sessions, cookies, etc.
How Compojure is embedded in traditional Java servlet environments: "It's just a jar!"
A variety of approaches to rendering views: JSP-like templating, using Clojure data structures as a natural DSL, and using the functional Enlive library.
Integrating with data stores, both relational and NoSQL.

The examples will include hands-on exercises that you can take home.

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.