Thank you! Thanks to all who joined us this year at the First International Grails eXchange! We hope you enjoyed it (we certainly did!) and we hope to see you again next year! Podcasts For those who couldn't make it: The Skills Matter Team (organisers of the Grails eXchange) will be posting podcasts of most session on here or on www.theserverside.com. The following Sessions are now live on the Grails eXchange website: Opening Day Keynotes with Graeme Rocher and Guillaume LaForge Panel Discussion featuring Graeme Rocher, Guillaume LaForge, Dierk Koening and Scott Davis Canoo Web Test and Grails, Dierk Koenig Managing Ajax Across the User Section, Dave Crane Setting up Grails in an Agile Environment, Arnaud Heritier and Fabrice Robini Dynamic Groovy: Meta Magic, Graeme Rocher Groovy, Grails and Google Maps: Mashups 101, Scott Davis Hibernate State of the Union, Emmanuel Bernard The Whole 9 Yards: Things you can do in 10 Minutes that will Make Users Love you, Glen Smith Agile Web Development with Grails, Venkat Subramaniam Unit Testing and Mock Objects with Groovy, Dierk Koenig GORM: Object Relational Mapping with Hibernate De-mystified, Graeme Rocher Dojo 0.9 Faster, Leaner and Dijit?, Dylan Schiemann Advanced Metaprogramming with Groovy, Jeff Brown Grails in the Enterprise: A Look at what's Ahead of Us, Steven DeVijver Hibernate Search: Search Engine for the Masses, Emmanuel Bernard Advanced Web Application Security, Joe Walker Acegi on Grails: Security on Grails, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Grails in the Real World, Marc Palmer Domain Specific Languages in Groovy, Venkat Subramaniam The Groovy Eclipse Plugin, Scott Hickey Hands-on DWR, Joe Walker Test Driven Development with Groovy and Grails, Jeff Brown Understanding Gant, Russel Winder Grails Plug-in Examples, Steven DeVjiver Test N' Groove: A Breath of Fresh Air for your Tests, Alex Popescu Grails eXchange Alumni Group For those who did attend Grails eXchange 2007 and want to be kept up to date on postings, please sign up for the Yahoo! Group for Grails eXchange alumni (you should have received an invitation, please send us an email to grails at skillsmatter dot com if you haven't seen this). Some Feedback & Blogs on grails exchange 2007: Marc Palmer enjoyed the workshop atmosphere on Day 1 of the Grails eXchange Graeme Rocher's Grails eXchange Quote of the Day Jason Rudolph lists some of the main announcements at the Grails eXchange Bernd Schiffer enjoyed Graeme's talk on the Grails Plug-in Architecture Groovy.org.es features the Grails eXchange Geertjan Wielenga on Stepping Through Groovy in Netbeans Antonio Goncalves on his first day at the Grails eXchange Antonio Goncalves on his 2nd day at the Grails eXchange Antonio Goncalves on his 3rd day at the Grails eXchange Venkat on his Pleasure and Pain at the Grails eXchange Jason Rudolph on his presentation on EJB3Classes at the Grails eXchange Glen Smith on Day 0 at the Grails eXchange

Last year's Speakers (2007)

Alex Popescu Arnaud Heritier & Fabrice Robini Brian Oliver Dave Crane Dierk Koenig Dr. David Syer Dylan Schiemann Emmanuel Bernard Eugene Vigdorchik Geertjan Wielenga Glen Smith Graeme Rocher Guillaume Alleon Guillaume LaForge Isma�l H�ry & Gilles Laborderie

Jason Rudolph Jeff Brown Joe Walker Joe Walnes Jonas Jacobi Marc Palmer Paul Fremantle Russel Winder Scott Davis Scott Hickey Steven DeVijver Sven Haiges Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Venkat Subramaniam

eXchange ideas
Spanning over 3 days, featuring over 50 sessions, forty expert speakers, user group & community presentations and the Grails eXchange Party (on Thursday)and some hundred enterprise developers from the UK and Europe, The Grails eXchange provides the ultimate platform to exchange ideas, connect with some of the most innovative brains in the industry and learn how to get the best from your investment in Java technology, whilst harnessing the power of the JVM, the dynamic language Groovy and Grails.

Learn

Groovy, the Dynamic Language for the JVM Domain Specific Languages Grails, Spring, Hibernate and JBoss SOA, REST and Web Services Ajax, Comet, Sitemesh and Dojo

Web Security, Acegi and DWR EJB3 entities and Grails Agile Web Develoment with Grails Unit Testing & Mock Objects with Groovy Groovy, Grails and Google Maps and more!

About Groovy
Groovy is a dynamic language written specifically for the JVM. It has a syntax that in many ways will be very familiar to Java programmers. It has been said that Groovy is like the super version of Java. It has the ability to leverage Java's enterprise capabilities but also has great productivity features like closures, builders and dynamic typing. Wether you are a developer, tester or script guru, you have to love Groovy!

About Grails
Grails is an Open Source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web Development. Inspired by some fantastic ideas behind Rails, it aims to make development as simple as possible, bringing the "coding by convention" paradigm to Groovy and Java. You can use Grails as a standalone development environment that hides all configuration details or integrate your Java Business Logic.

Groovy & Grails in 2007

• Groovy 1.0 launched in January
• Groovy in Action in the top 10 best sellers list at JavaOne
• grails.codehaus.org boasts the highest traffic of all projects on codehaus
• First ever Grails eXchange in London this October!