Grails project lead Graeme Rocher delivers an update on Grails 3 including the latest features of GORM. Grails 3.2 introduces AngularJS scaffolding and support for RxJava and MongoDB in GORM amongst other new features.

2. What’s new in Grails?

3. Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead
@graemerocher
rocherg@ociweb.com

4. Grails 3 Status Update
• Grails 3.1.8 current release of 3.x
line
• Grails 3.0.x and 2.x in
maintenance mode
• Grails 2.x plugins being migrated
(the good ones)

5. New Plugin Portal
• Thanks to the Agile Orbit crew!

6. slack-signup.grails.org

7. Grails 3 Recap
• New architecture - Spring Boot,
Gradle, Profiles
• Same philosophy - Conventions,
DRY, Plugins
3.0

8. Application Profiles
• Not just web applications
• REST APIs, SPA, Big Data, Micro
Services
• The world has changed!
• Expand Grails’ reach

9. Grails 3 Feature Recap
• Grails 3.0.x a solid base for the future
• Foundational components stable
• Great time to jump into plugin
development
• Improvements coming all the time!

10. Then came Grails 3.1
• Spring Boot 1.3, Spring 4.2
• Massive improvements to profiles
• REST (Web API) Profile
• AngularJS Profile
• GORM 5

11. Announcing Grails 3.2
• RxGORM
• MongoDB 3.0 RX driver support
• RxGORM REST client
• GORM Multi Tenancy
• GORM for Neo4j 3.x / Bolt support
• AngularJS scaffolding
• Further refinements to REST support

12. Profile Improvements
• New Gradle Plugins
• Now just JAR files
• A Profile for creating Profiles!
• Extensibility

13. The REST Profile
• Easy creation of REST APIs
• Easy customisability with JSON views
• Security support with spring-security-rest
• Integration unit and functional testing

14. The REST Profile
• Profile specific commands:
• create-domain-resource -
creates an @Resource domain
• create-restful-controller -
Creates a RestfulController
• Default commands provide focused
templates

15. JSON Views
• Statically compiled, extensible JSON views:
json.person {
name "bob"
}
{"person":{"name":"bob"}}

16. DEMO - JSON Views

17. JSON Views
• Restoring the V in MVC
• Fast, flexible and expressive
• Pre-compilation for production environments
• Grails 3.2: Template inheritance, global
templates, HAL pagination and more
• Find out more http://views.grails.org/1.1.x

18. The AngularJS Profile
• Extends the REST profile
• Adds project setup for AngularJS
• Code generation for AngularJS
• Grails 3.2: AngularJS scaffolding

19. The AngularJS Profile
• Profile specific commands:
• create-ng-controller - Creates
an AngularJS controller
• create-ng-service - Creates an
AngularJS service
• Default commands provide focused
templates

20. DEMO - Angular Scaffolding

21. GORM 5 Suite
• GORM Reborn - Trait based
• Hibernate 5
• MongoDB 3
• Neo4j 2.3
• Cassandra
3.0

22. GORM 5 - Hibernate
• Support for Hibernate 3, 4 and 5 (and
5.1)
• Completely rewritten and based on
traits
• Grails 2, Grails 3, Spring Boot or
Standalone

23. GORM 5 - MongoDB
• Rewritten for MongoDB 3.x driver
• Uses codecs to avoid Document to
Object conversion (much faster)
• Grails 2, Grails 3, Spring Boot or
Standalone

24. GORM 5 - Neo4j
• Rewritten for Neo4j 2.3.x
• Robust Cypher and Transaction support
• Embedded, REST & HA modes
supported
• Grails 2, Grails 3, Spring Boot or
Standalone

25. Announcing GORM 6 Suite
• RxGORM
• MongoDB RX Support
• RxGORM REST Client
• Neo4j 3.x / Bolt Driver
• Native Multi Tenancy
3.0

26. RxGORM
• GORM for RxJava
• Reactive
• Stateless
• Non-Blocking
• Lightweight
3.0

27. DEMO - RxGORM

28. Summary
• Big plans in the future for profiles and
the Grails platform
• Grails evolving to tackle new challenges
• The Grails community and plugin
ecosystem as important as ever

29. Q & A

30. Thank You!
Graeme Rocher
rocherg@ociweb.com
ociweb.com/grails

31. Come speak to the OCI Grails Team!
Web: grails.org
StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/grails
Slack: http://slack-signup.grails.org
Twitter: @grailsframework