Building SOFEA Applications with Grails and GWT

In early 2009, Matt participated in a major enhancement of a high-traffic well-known internet site. The company wanted to quickly re-architect their site and use a modern Ajax framework to do it with. An Ajax Framework evaluation was done to help the team choose the best framework for their skillset. The application was built with a SOFEA architecture using GWT on the frontend and Grails/REST on the backend.

This talk will cover how Matt's team came to choose GWT and Grails, as well as stumbling blocks they encountered along the way. In addition, we'll explore many topics such as raw GWT vs. GXT and SmartGWT, the GWT-Plugin, modularizing your code, multiple EntryPoints, integration testing and JSON parsing with Overlay Types.


About Matt Raible

Matt Raible resides in Denver, Colorado, where he runs Raible Designs, a consultancy that specializes in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. Matt has been surrounded by computers for most of his life, even though he grew up without electricity in the backwoods of Montana.

Matt is an author (Spring Live, Pro JSP), active Java open-source contributor, and blogger on raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.

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