Kenneth Kousen

Presentations

Grails from start to finish

Build a complete Grails application in this full-day workshop. Start from scratch designing the domain, add controllers and services, improve the user interface with Ajax calls, write unit and integration tests, and use plugins add functionality.

While building the application, we'll also talk about issues relating to Hibernate sessions and GORM, and how the Grails architecture differs from other standard approaches. A survey of some of the more popular plugins will be included, and we'll add as many as time allows.

Testing Grails

Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. This session will demonstrate the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins.

Topics will include testing constraints, the mock libraries for testing controllers, generating test data, the available testing annotations, and more.

RIAs using the ZK plugin for Grails

ZK is a set of custom tags and controllers that allow users to design Rich Internet Applications without writing the Ajax or JavaScript code directly. The ZKGrails plugin makes it easy to add ZK user interfaces to a Grails project. ZK is particularly good at designing data entry screens familiar to users of other technologies.

ZK views look very much like desktop applications and are automatically event-driven using Ajax calls. The plugin is Convention over Configuration meets Direct Ajax. Build powerful user interfaces using ZK composers, ZUL pages, and JavaScript event handlers.