1. Executing on the “ Side Project”

2. Why Grails?
 Finishing the “ side project”
 Staying motivated
 Adding features quickly
 Getting it deployed
 First experiences (SMS Gateway)

3. A History of Groovyblogs
 Started at 20 hour challenge in Jan 07
 Slimtimer provided
 Originally deployed on Tomcat
 Migrated to Glassfish as architecture grew

4. Basic Architecture

5. Why Glassfish?
 Fantastic Admin console
 Great JMS Provider
 JNDI Data Sources (Easy)
 Robust (zero maintenance)
 Grails support was excellent from the start

6. Further Info
 http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen
 Twitter on glen_a_smith