magnolia levitating using grails
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DESCRIPTION
Following the growing adoptance of dynamic languages, frameworks and stacks we decided to make a as complete as possible integration of Grails and Magnolia. It turned out it was possible to make magnolia developement highly productive using it. It's now both open source and used in production. We will talk about why, how, benefits and do some live coding.TRANSCRIPT
MAGNOLIA LEVITATING USING GRAILS
Tuesday, 4 September 12
Åke ArgéusKimmo Björnsson
WHO WE ARE?
15 years Java experience each
Contributed to Magnolia Blossom Spring integration
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Bonheur AB
100% MAGNOLIA
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PREREQS
• From nothing to complete e-commerce system in 6 months
•Multiple teams
•Mixed content
• Easy to use and edit by editors
•Customizable and extendable, future-proof
•Utilize our existing Java experience
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CONCLUSION
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WHY GROOVY
http://groovy.codehaus.org/
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WHY GRAILS
•Coding by convention
•Reloading built-in
•Based on Spring
•Full web stack
•Grails plugins
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MAGLEV GOALS
Integrate our favorite CMS with our favorite web stack
Keep Grails intact
Keep Magnolia intact
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THE PROBLEM
Magnolia wants to control the request lifecycle
Grails wants to control the request lifecycle and building and packaging
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THE SOLUTION
Extends Grails with Magnolia (not the other way around)
Let Grails handle building and packaging
Hand over the request to Magnolia (entire filter-chain)
Extend Blossom to render templates and view with Grails
Modified UrlMapping to choose between Grails and Magnolia
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IN PRODUCTION
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WHEN IS IT USEFUL
Quick prototyping
Highly integrated apps
Database-backed content
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LIVE CODING
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