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Grails Tutorial
This tutorial creates a conference booking web application in an hour using Grails. The theme of this tak is convention over configuration, don't repeat yourself (dry) and delay code generation as late as possible. The zip file contains the completed application plus one I extended to make it more user friendly. You will need to download and install Grails, Groovy and Java to run the code.
I spent about 20 odd hours developing this talk and learnt a lot a about Grails along the way. I have to say the framework is pretty damn good and makes database intensive applications very to implement. I can't compare it to other frameworks other than standard Java web applications and to be honest there is no comparison. One is pain the other is a delight. I'll leave you to work out which I prefer to use.
Feel free to reuse / adapt the presentation and application with appropriate credits.
The tutorial would impossible without all the unpaid help that produced Groovy and Grails and would have been much harder to create without Jason Rudolph's Getting Started with Grails ebook.
Thanks Everyone.