Presentation and Notes from my Grails talk

Here is a PDF of my Grails talk at the Philly Emerging Tech conference today. It is a general overview of Groovy and Grails, and was meant to be delivered with a 20-30 minute demo. My demo consisted of creating a few domain classes and controllers, and showing scaffolding.

I ran out of time in 60 minutes, but if I had enough I would have shown Glen Smith's Gravl as a sample application (with full props to Glen, as that app is a tremendously useful example).

There were a few questions asked at the end... One of them was whether you can create a jndi datasource in Grails. Yes, you can. An attribute you can apply to a datasource (from the Grails docs):

dataSource {
    jndiName = "java:comp/env/myDataSource"
}

The full URL is here.

Thanks to everyone who attended; it was a packed room and Grails seemed to generate a lot of interest. Right now I'm listening to a talk on Seam, which seems to be JBoss's annotation-driven answer to Rails and Grails. More later.