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Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM tutorial

Tuesday, July 20
1:30PM
Portland 255

Learning Grails is a lot of fun, especially when you’re learning while doing. With that in mind, this is going to be a hands on tutorial and you will learn more and have a better experience if you follow along during the class. To do this you will need the Java SDK and Grails installed on your computer. You will also need a text editor of some sort and a web browser.

Most modern Java development tools, such as Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans, have Groovy and Grails support. Feel free to use one of these during the class. I will just be using a text editor.

Completed code samples will be available on CD or USB drive at the conference, but please be sure that Grails and Java are both installed before coming to the class.

For more information on downloading and installing the Java SDK, please visit http://java.sun.com. Here are the instructions for downloading and installing Grails:

Download Grails version 1.3.3 from http://grails.org/Download Extract the archive to a local directory Set a GRAILS_HOME environment variable to point to that directory Add GRAILS_HOME/bin to your PATH Set a JAVA_HOME variable to a local directory containing a valid Java SDK

To test your installation type grails help at a command prompt. You should see a list of grails commands. If you’re having trouble or have any questions, feel free to email me at daveklein@usa.net.

Thanks and I’ll see you at OSCON!

Dave Klein