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by Kris Lander
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Hi,
If we can officially, then we certainly will. Like Jerome said when
the dust settles we'd be happy to share some of our experiences. When
we met Graeme last month we did talk about doing some kind of case
study perhaps. Either way, we'd certainly like to give something back.
It's a shame you guys cannot see the editor side of the application
which is really where all the whizzy and interesting functionality
lives.
If I had to talk about one area which we have invested time in, it's
around aspects of extensibility when we've attempted to push Grails
(and plugins) that bit beyond their "normal" usage. For big
application, with complex requirements and architectures this is
inevitable. Sometimes this has been delightfully easy and sometimes
this has been perhaps more difficult than it should have been. For
example, we've definitely got one too many patches to various
grails/plugin scripts than we'd like. ;)
A good framework always goes to great lengths to provide all sorts of
nice hooks to make it painless to cleanly extend the framework. I
think this is especially true when you have a language like Groovy
that has such powerful features like dynamic method injection. ;)
We've run into a few issues with compatibility of plugins and our own
code because we (or plugin code) has some "creative" code. This is
quite possibly our (or others) naivety some of the time, but as grails
matures as a framework I think this is going to become increasingly
important, especially for plugin developers. That said things are
currently a long way from being bad.
Despite a lot of frustration in the early days getting to grips with a
new language, new framework and tool support which isn't as
comprehensive as Java is today, we've had a lot of fun and I can
honestly say I hope I never have to write another web application in
Java again. :-)
-Kris
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glaforge@...> wrote:
> Waoo, congratulations!
>
> Don't forget to add a link to your site on the Grails success story page:
> http://grails.org/Success+Stories
>
> ;-)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:04 PM, j pimmel <frankly.watson@...> wrote:
>
>
> > O Hai
> >
> > Well, we're here still and we're live... The guys here: Robert Fletcher,
> > Kris L, myself and the other 15 odd devs, are pleased to announce a go live
> > on an all Grails/Groovy site..
> >
> > The content is bound to amuse and titillate even, but while the content
> > wasnt of our choosing, the technology sure was.
> >
> > http://showbiz.sky.com
> >
> > The work isnt over yet, but we'd like to thank all of those on here who have
> > helped out with problems, to Graeme et al who are doing a sterling job I'm
> > told (sadly i couldnt come out to Lower Marsh the other day) and hopefully
> > another solid milestone to mark the growing successes of Grails n groovy..
> >
> > Rob would have wanted to be the one announcing, but seeing as he is probably
> > in the Kruger Game Reserve or someplace wild like that right now, I dont
> > think he will mind too much that i took the wind from the sails...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > j
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume Laforge
> Groovy Project Manager
> G2One, Inc. Vice-President Technology
> http://www.g2one.com
>
>
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If we can officially, then we certainly will. Like Jerome said when
the dust settles we'd be happy to share some of our experiences. When
we met Graeme last month we did talk about doing some kind of case
study perhaps. Either way, we'd certainly like to give something back.
It's a shame you guys cannot see the editor side of the application
which is really where all the whizzy and interesting functionality
lives.
If I had to talk about one area which we have invested time in, it's
around aspects of extensibility when we've attempted to push Grails
(and plugins) that bit beyond their "normal" usage. For big
application, with complex requirements and architectures this is
inevitable. Sometimes this has been delightfully easy and sometimes
this has been perhaps more difficult than it should have been. For
example, we've definitely got one too many patches to various
grails/plugin scripts than we'd like. ;)
A good framework always goes to great lengths to provide all sorts of
nice hooks to make it painless to cleanly extend the framework. I
think this is especially true when you have a language like Groovy
that has such powerful features like dynamic method injection. ;)
We've run into a few issues with compatibility of plugins and our own
code because we (or plugin code) has some "creative" code. This is
quite possibly our (or others) naivety some of the time, but as grails
matures as a framework I think this is going to become increasingly
important, especially for plugin developers. That said things are
currently a long way from being bad.
Despite a lot of frustration in the early days getting to grips with a
new language, new framework and tool support which isn't as
comprehensive as Java is today, we've had a lot of fun and I can
honestly say I hope I never have to write another web application in
Java again. :-)
-Kris
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glaforge@...> wrote:
> Waoo, congratulations!
>
> Don't forget to add a link to your site on the Grails success story page:
> http://grails.org/Success+Stories
>
> ;-)
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:04 PM, j pimmel <frankly.watson@...> wrote:
>
>
> > O Hai
> >
> > Well, we're here still and we're live... The guys here: Robert Fletcher,
> > Kris L, myself and the other 15 odd devs, are pleased to announce a go live
> > on an all Grails/Groovy site..
> >
> > The content is bound to amuse and titillate even, but while the content
> > wasnt of our choosing, the technology sure was.
> >
> > http://showbiz.sky.com
> >
> > The work isnt over yet, but we'd like to thank all of those on here who have
> > helped out with problems, to Graeme et al who are doing a sterling job I'm
> > told (sadly i couldnt come out to Lower Marsh the other day) and hopefully
> > another solid milestone to mark the growing successes of Grails n groovy..
> >
> > Rob would have wanted to be the one announcing, but seeing as he is probably
> > in the Kruger Game Reserve or someplace wild like that right now, I dont
> > think he will mind too much that i took the wind from the sails...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > j
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume Laforge
> Groovy Project Manager
> G2One, Inc. Vice-President Technology
> http://www.g2one.com
>
>
>
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