2. Why Grails?
ï§ Finishing the â side projectâ
ï§ Staying motivated
ï§ Adding features quickly
ï§ Getting it deployed
ï§ First experiences (SMS Gateway)
3. A History of Groovyblogs
ï§ Started at 20 hour challenge in Jan 07
ï§ Slimtimer provided
ï§ Originally deployed on Tomcat
ï§ Migrated to Glassfish as architecture grew
5. Why Glassfish?
ï§ Fantastic Admin console
ï§ Great JMS Provider
ï§ JNDI Data Sources (Easy)
ï§ Robust (zero maintenance)
ï§ Grails support was excellent from the start