Grails 3 Workshop

Use the Grails framework to build a web application that also supports a RESTful API. Build a domain model that provides powerful querying capabilities with GORM, use transactional services to apply business logic, and take advantage of the underlying Spring Boot support for monitoring and JSON support.

The workshop will be interactive, but coding is optional. You are free to simply watch and make suggestions if you prefer. If you decide to participate, the application will be built using Grails 3.2 on top of Java 8 (though Java 7 will be supported).


Kenneth Kousen

About Kenneth Kousen

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.

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