The Groovy language and the Grails framework have slowly but surely grown in prominence. Grails uses the best ideas from the Ruby on Rails world while still continuing to leverage the tried, tested and trusted Java platform as well as established frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. However there has been hardly any community behind Groovy and Grails in India. The Java meet for this month is an attempt to facilitate discussion amongst Groovy and Grails enthusiasts in Pune & India.

Sun Microsystems today announced the speakers for the 2008 JavaOne conference General Sessions, as well as details on JavaOne conference Pavilion “villages”, areas of the exhibit hall focused around particular themes. Full details on the General Sessions are available at: http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/sessions/general/index.jsp. Registration details are available at: http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/registration.jsp.