Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at http://bit.ly/13S4ZBp. David Dawson, Russell Miles, Justin Holmes debate on which is the best server-side web framework for the JVM: Play or Grails?Filmed at qconlondon.com. David Dawson is Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself. Justin Holmes is a consultant at OpenCredo. Russ Miles is Principal Consultant at Simplicity Itself.

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5. CGI JSP
Remember when ....
PERL

6. CGI JSP
Remember when ....
PERL

7. CGI JSP
Remember when ....
PERL

8. CGI JSP
MVC
Remember when ....
PERL
Late 90s

9. Sponsored
by
Pivotal
Initiative "Grails brings
back the
enjoyment of
Java Web
Development!"

10. used in mission critical apps! (tm)
"We've found that Play is one of the few
frameworks that is able to maintain the delicate
balance of performance, reliability, and developer
productivity"
May include:-

12. (defroutes main-routes
(GET "/" [] (str "Powered by Clojure" ))
(route/not-found "Page not found") )
(def app
(handler/api main-routes))
(defn -main [port]
(run-jetty app {:port (Integer.port)}))

13. (defroutes main-routes
(GET "/" [] (str "Powered by Clojure" ))
(route/not-found "Page not found") )
(def app
(handler/api main-routes))
(defn -main [port]
(run-jetty app {:port (Integer.port)}))

14. has
Spring

15. has
Akka

16. has
Servlets

17. has
netty

18. has
Conventions

19. has a
Static
Environment

20. has a
Dynamic
Environment

21. has
GORM

22. is
Stateless

23. has
plugins

24. has
(lots of)
plugins

25. Complex

26. does Spring

27. does Spring ...
for Java

28. Debbie does...

29. does Groovy

30. does Groovy
and Java

31. does Groovy
and Java
at the same time

32. does Scala

33. does Scala
and Java

34. does Scala
and Java
at the same time

35. does async

36. does war

37. does war files

38. In Summary

39. Play is good for async

40. Play is good for Scala and
Java

41. Grails is good for Groovy
and Java

42. Grails is good for DBs
(not Debbie)

44. Both are good

45. Both are different

46. Decide

47. Thank-you