2. About the Speaker
• Java developer since the beginning
• True believer in Open Source
• Groovy committer since 2007
• Project lead of the Griffon framework
• Currently working for
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4. http://grails.org
• Started in 2005, inspired by Ruby on Rails
• Apache License 2.0
• Builds on top of Spring, Hibernate, Sitemesh
• More than 600 plugins available
• Used for both small and large scale projects
• Latest release 2.0.0-RC1
• Peter Ledbrook will be around
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6. http://griffon.codehaus.org
• Started in 2008, inspired by Grails
• Apache License 2.0
• Build desktop apps effortlessly
• More than 170 plugins
• Polyglot aware
• Multi toolkit support
• Latest release: 0.9.4
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8. http://gaelyk.appspot.com
• Started in 2009
• Apache License 2.0
• Provides lightweight abstractions over GAE’s
services
• Emerging plugin system
• Latest release: 1.0
• Guillaume will be around
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10. http://gradle.org
• Started in 2007
• Apache Licence 2.0
• Groovy DSL for project building
• Harness the power of maven conventions
• Has a very deep DAG for handling task
dependencies
• Plugin system ready
• Latest release: 1.0-milestone-5
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12. http://gant.codehaus.org
• Started sometime in 2006
• Apache License 2.0
• Think Ant without the ugly XML
• Used by both Grails and Griffon
• Latest release: groovy1.8-1.9.7
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14. http://easyb.org
• Started in 2008
• Apache License 2.0
• Inspired in JBehave
• Enables BDD testing for Java/Groovy code
• IDE Integration
• Plugins for Grails & Griffon
• Latest release: 0.9.8