A Space to Think...

"Wondering how a Spring developer, such as yourself, might be able to take advantage of Groovy and Grails? Seen Grails in action, but decided that it's too different from your tried and tested Spring best practices to jump to just yet? Just want to know what all the noise is about around those pesky 'dynamic languages' and 'super productive convention over configuration frameworks' is all about?"

Then this is the talk for you. With tongue firmly in cheek, I'm going to be giving a "Grails eye for the Spring guy" talk on what Groovy and Grails means to Spring developers for the Manchester Spring User Group on the Monday June 15th.

This talk is an opportunity to wind back all the fantastic features of Groovy and Grails and understand the Spring foundation that provides all that productivity-enhancing goodness. I'm going to demonstrate how you can gradually move your existing Spring applications over to a more Groovier implementation (using GORM and Spring Builder) before finally making the jump to fully use Grails, all the while keeping thing running on top of the de-facto standard tc and dm Server releases from SpringSource.

For more details and to sign up to reserve a place head on over to...

• The Manchester Spring User Group...

It's going to be fun, I hope you can make it! Live somewhere near London and can't make the Manchester SUG? More announcements to follow... keep watching this space!