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.

1. MAGNOLIA LEVITATING
USING GRAILS
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2. WHO WE ARE?
Åke Argéus
Kimmo Björnsson
15 years Java experience each
Contributed to Magnolia Blossom Spring integration
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3. 100% MAGNOLIA
Bonheur AB
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5. 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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6. CONCLUSION
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7. WHY GROOVY
http://groovy.codehaus.org/
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8. WHY GRAILS
• Coding by convention
• Reloading built-in
• Based on Spring
• Full web stack
• Grails plugins
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9. MAGLEV GOALS
Integrate our favorite CMS
with our favorite web stack
Keep Grails intact
Keep Magnolia intact
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10. THE PROBLEM
Magnolia wants to control
the request lifecycle
Grails wants to control the
request lifecycle and building
and packaging
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11. 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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12. IN PRODUCTION
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13. WHEN IS IT USEFUL
Quick prototyping
Highly integrated apps
Database-backed content
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14. LIVE CODING
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