Making Spring Boot Even Groovier

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Shows how to replace Java ceremony with Groovy in Spring Boot: use Gradle + Spock for build and readable data‑driven tests, add Groovy sources with @CompileStatic for Java‑like performance, and choose Groovy templates (.tpl) and GSP for views (GSP gives automatic XSS prevention and taglibs). Demonstrates plugging in GORM (Hibernate/MongoDB) by adding a dependency and annotating domain classes (grails.persistence.entity), swaps to MongoDB by changing one dependency, and runs a working Spring Boot 1.1 app end to end.

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1. 0:00Introduction to talk
2. 1:11Spring Boot and Groovy basics
3. 6:27Adding Groovy to Spring Boot
4. 7:29Gradle build system
5. 16:13Spock testing framework
6. 21:59Mixing Groovy and Java
7. 35:12Groovy templates
8. 44:06Introducing GORM
9. 55:27GORM with Hibernate
10. 58:15GORM with MongoDB
11. 1:05:18GSP template engine
12. 1:17:49Q&A and summary