Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Sam Brannen, Swiftmind

Core Spring Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/testing-with-spring-framework-4x

The Spring Framework has undergone a lot of innovation in the 4.0 and 4.1 releases, and so has its testing support. Join Spring Test component lead Sam Brannen in this talk to discover what's new in Spring's testing support in 4.0 through 4.1. This talk will provide attendees an overview of what's been deprecated, what's changed, and what's been introduced in Spring's testing support over the last two years, with real life examples and tips for best practices. Highlights include using SocketUtils to scan for free TCP & UDP server ports, the ActiveProfilesResolver API, meta-annotation support for test annotations including attribute overrides, best practices with TestNG, using Groovy scripts to configure an ApplicationContext for integration tests, improvements to SQL script execution and embedded databases, the new TestContext framework bootstrap strategy, programmatic transaction management in tests, and more.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Steve Pember

G&G Special Topics

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/reactive-grails

The natural tendency for application developers is to construct their code in a procedural, synchronous, monolithic pattern. Veteran developers know that this leads to error prone, unscalable, slow software - yet it is alarmingly prevalent. There have been several architectural patterns that have risen over the years which have attempted to mitigate this problem. One of the most popular has been Service Oriented Architecture, which involves breaking the monolithic application into a distributed system of several smaller services. In this talk, I argue that SOA is a decent start, but not nearly good enough. I will discuss the tenants of the Reactive Pattern and the importance of moving away from Monolithic to Reactive architectures. We will discuss the various Groovy-friendly technologies that allow us to build distributed, micro-service based applications and cover effective communication strategies between each service. We will see how being Reactive is the only viable architecture for large, efficient, scalable systems. If Reactive is new to you, this should be an excellent introduction.

Speaker: Andy Wilkinson

An API's documentation is a vital part of making it easy to understand and easy to use. RESTful APIs are no different. In this webinar we'll look at what should be included in your RESTful API's documentation and, just as importantly, what should be omitted. To illustrate this we'll look at some real-world examples of good and bad API documentation. We'll look at some of the problems and limitations of choosing a tool like Swagger to produce your API's documentation and conclude by looking at some alternatives that are better-suited to producing documentation that your users will love.

Learn more about Spring MVC http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework

Learn more about Spring REST Docs https://github.com/wilkinsona/spring-restdocs

Webinar: Introducing the Java DSL for Spring Integration

Speaker: Gary Russell

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/garyrussell/spring-integration-java-dsl-a-deeper-dive

The Spring Integration JavaConfig and DSL extension provides a set of convenient Builders and a fluent API to configure Spring Integration message flows from Spring @Configuration classes. The Java DSL for Spring Integration is essentially a facade for Spring Integration. The DSL provides a simple way to embed Spring Integration Message Flows into your application using the fluent Builder pattern together with existing Java and Annotation configurations from Spring Framework and Spring Integration as well. Another useful tool to simplify configuration is Java 8 Lambdas.

Learn more about Spring Integration: http://projects.spring.io/spring-integration

Learn more about Spring XD: http://projects.spring.io/spring-xd

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Cédric Champeau

More Groovy Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/traits-design

Groovy 2.3 introduces the concept of traits in the language. Traits look like interfaces, but allow the developer to add both implementation and state into it. It introduces multiple inheritance in the language while avoiding the diamond problem. Traits will let you rethink the way you design APIs in Groovy, by favoriting composition of behaviors.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/testing-grails

Grails comes with extensive testing support, ranging from unit to integration to functional tests. This session will demonstrate the range of options available both natively and through testing plugins. Prerequisite: Some knowledge of Grails would be helpful but not assumed.

Speaker: Kenneth Kousen

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/holy-grails

Learn Grails from basic principles to advanced concepts by building a small, but interesting, application. Learn Grails from basic principles to advanced concepts by building a small, but interesting, application.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Jeff Scott Brown

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/res-tful-grails2

Grails 2 includes a lot of features and functionality related to building RESTful services. These include an entirely new and more flexibile data binding system, runtime and compile time metaprogramming which greatly reduce the amount of code required in your RESTful services, a rich set of content negotiation tools and more.

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014.

Speaker: Graeme Rocher

Essential Grails Track

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/2-gx-2014-grails-30-preview

In this talk, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher will present a preview of the much anticipating version 3.0 rewrite of the Grails framework including presentation of the goals behind the changes and what will be achievable with the new version.