In this Groovy interview the JavaPosse members talk with Guillaume LaForge about the new features of version 1.5. They ask what he thinks about the Closures controversy and how it fits in the Groovy language. How can you leverage Groovy in an enterprise Java project using Grails and what books should we Groovy newbies read ?
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 initiated 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 Laforge is the Vice-President of Technology at G2One, the company sustaining and leading the development of Groovy and Grails.
JRuby on Rails— This session will take you all the way from an introduction to Ruby and Rails (and a description on how they have managed to change the world) to showing you exactly how you can go about creating your own first JRuby on Rails web application. After this session, you will know how to get started and how to proceed, and you will have gotten a taste of the future of web development that will leave you craving for more.
Project Phobos— This JavaPolis presentation will cover an open source project code-named Phobos which is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment running on the Java platform, aimed at addressing emerging developer requirements. The goal of Project Phobos is to show that Java is an excellent platform for server-side scripting, allowing dynamic-language developers to leverage the power of Java SE and EE.
Bringing Ruby and Rails to the JVM— In this presentation Thomas and Charles explain Ruby and show what makes it great, demonstrate how JRuby brings Ruby to Java and Java to Ruby, explore how JRuby on Rails brings agile web development to Java EE and Java EE's best features to Rails, and discuss the future of Ruby, Rails, and dynamic languages on the JVM.
JRuby-team JavaPolis 2006 Interview— JRuby aims to bring Ruby to Java developers and provide an alternative platform for Ruby developers. In this interview the JRuby team talk about their experience in building JRuby on top of the Java virtual machine. Can JRuby compile to Java code, will it be used for domain languages and many more questions are fired by our JavaPolis interviewer Ted Neward.
