Guillaume LaForge - Groovy Project Lead and JSR-241 Spec Lead
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As the official
Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241, standardizing the Groovy dynamic language, Guillaume LaForge spends his spare time bringing a versatile and agile environment to the masses and intiated the seed of Grails, the Groovy and Spring framework. He has co-authored Manning's successful Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig, one of the passionate Groovy developers.
In his professional life, Guillaume is a software architect and Open Source consultant, working for OCTO Technology, a French consultancy focusing on architecture of software and information systems. |
Guillaume's Blog
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Guillaume's Talks
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Groovy Keynote
Groovy is almost 4-years old, released a 1.0 final release in January 2007, is used in mission-critical applications at Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and elsewhere, and is integrated in popular and trusted Open Source Projects like Spring. With a new 1.1 version, Groovy will go even further to cover the full spectrum of Enterprise needs by enabling people to integrate seamlessly with recent technologies like EJB3/JPA, TestNG or Guice, establishing Groovy as the de facto Enterprise scripting solution.
In this session, Guillaume gave an overview of the success of this dynamic language for the Java virtual machine and where it will be headed in the future. |
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Grails eXchange Presentation
Guillaume's Keynote on State of the Groovy Nation
Grails eXchange Podcast
Guillaume LaForge kicks off Grails eXchange!
Domain Specific Languages
As proclaimed recently by InfoQ, Domain-Specific Languages are an
architectural hot-spot. With dynamic languages like Groovy, it is easy to create a mini-language modelling a particular business domain, providing syntactical constructs close to the associated business concepts.
Groovy offers a great deal of flexibility through its dynamic nature and in terms of concise and expressive syntax. After an introduction to the concept of DSL and its motivation, Guillaume LaForge guided Grails eXchange attendees through the advanced Groovy concepts that will help you create your own embedded DSL, and showed how to integrate them in your JEE application.
Grails eXchange Presentation
Domain Specific Languages
Grails eXchange Podcast
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