Busy eCommerce site launched

[pgampel]

We launched http://www.jrdutyfree.co.nz today after one month's development from scratch. There are still a few rough edges to complete, but it is 95% there. Grails is a most productive web development framework and was great for the process.

I opted to use Apache for static content serving to boost performance and Grails is running inside Glassfish. This is about the 15th major Grails application we have put into production and Glassfish is as stable as ever.

Thanks to the Grails team and community for producing a really robust and great framework !!

Kind regards,
Paul

[oliverw]

Which version of Glassfish are you running in production if I may ask? And why did you choose a real  application server over just a servlet container such as Tomcat? Just curious because I'm going to face the same decisions pretty soon.

grails wrote

We launched http://www.jrdutyfree.co.nz today after one month's development from scratch. There are still a few rough edges to complete, but it is 95% there. Grails is a most productive web development framework and was great for the process.

I opted to use Apache for static content serving to boost performance and Grails is running inside Glassfish. This is about the 15th major Grails application we have put into production and Glassfish is as stable as ever.

Thanks to the Grails team and community for producing a really robust and great framework !!

Kind regards,
Paul

[Jean Barmash-3]

The site looks slick. 

Also, can you give a few more details on technology stack of the site?  Did you find any plugins particularly helpful?  What are you using for UI?   

Jean

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From: oliverw <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Sun, October 18, 2009 9:37:51 AM
Subject: Re: [grails-user] Busy eCommerce site launched


Which version of Glassfish are you running in production if I may ask? And
why did you choose a real  application server over just a servlet container
such as Tomcat? Just curious because I'm going to face the same decisions
pretty soon.


grails wrote:
>
> We launched http://www.jrdutyfree.co.nz today after one month's

> development from scratch. There are still a few rough edges to complete,
> but it is 95% there. Grails is a most productive web development framework
> and was great for the process.
>
> I opted to use Apache for static content serving to boost performance and
> Grails is running inside Glassfish. This is about the 15th major Grails
> application we have put into production and Glassfish is as stable as
> ever.
>
> Thanks to the Grails team and community for producing a really robust and
> great framework !!
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul
>

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[pgampel]

Hi Jean,

No plugins, some jars for mail, validation and encryption though. The plugin for mail doesn't fulfil our needs.

UI is just a little ajax with g:remoteFunction, but mostly HTML and content serving from a MySQL db. I used the absolute attribute in g:createLink alot to serve the static stuff from another server. The point being that the browser needs to see a second FQDN to set up additional connections for improved performance.

Cheers,
Paul

Jean Barmash wrote

The site looks slick.

Also, can you give a few more details on technology stack of the site?  Did you find any plugins particularly helpful?  What are you using for UI?  


Jean



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From: oliverw <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Sent: Sun, October 18, 2009 9:37:51 AM
Subject: Re: [grails-user] Busy eCommerce site launched


Which version of Glassfish are you running in production if I may ask? And
why did you choose a real  application server over just a servlet container
such as Tomcat? Just curious because I'm going to face the same decisions
pretty soon.


grails wrote:
>
> We launched http://www.jrdutyfree.co.nz today after one month's
> development from scratch. There are still a few rough edges to complete,
> but it is 95% there. Grails is a most productive web development framework
> and was great for the process.
>
> I opted to use Apache for static content serving to boost performance and
> Grails is running inside Glassfish. This is about the 15th major Grails
> application we have put into production and Glassfish is as stable as
> ever.
>
> Thanks to the Grails team and community for producing a really robust and
> great framework !!
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul
>

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