Re: Another high profile Grails site goes live

Marc,

I would be interested to know how long it took your team to implement
Tropicana and Coppela's web sites. I know an estimate doesn't worth
much without its context, but a rough idea would still be interesting.

-- Olivier Armand

On 2/7/07, Marc Palmer <marc@...> wrote:
>
> Later than we hoped but let's say there were issues upstream of us :)
>
> http://www.tropicana.co.uk/
>
> The UK arm of the famous orange and related juices uses:
>
> * Grails 0.4
> * StaticResourcesPlugin 0.2
> * ModelTagLib

> * I18NTagLib
>
> Again its a very simple site in "Web developer" terms but there's a
> bit of data collection smarts in there, plus some more things to
> come. A fun bit was setting up wallpapers to download with their
> content-disposition set so they download instead of display. I still
> don't think I have this 100% right for all browsers, but it was done
> just using Apache mod_headers which was a nice solution because
> getting Tomcat to serve these large files would have been madness.
>
> There's quite a bit of flash on the site, but none of it is served by
> Tomcat and is hence not in the .WAR thanks to

> StaticResourcesPlugin... which was totally broken until this morning

> in production, sorry guys - unit tested well but then you find that
> on a live box grails.env is not set at all...
>
> Soon we will move all images to static serving and the site should be
> even snappier.
>
> There are some known issues (ugly chars in the country list!) and
> some significant updates to come to both Copella and Tropicana sites
> in the near term... and there are more sites to come in before the
> summer! :)
>
> Thanks again to all the grails devs for making this possible.
> Tropicana was much less painful than, nay very enjoyable, compared to
> Copella as 0.4 is such a landmark release for putting Grails sites
> into live production.
>
> Marc
> ~ ~ ~
> Marc Palmer (marc@...)

> Consultant/Analyst

> http://www.anyware.co.uk/
>
> AnyWare Ltd.
>
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