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<p>By leveraging the Apache Grails framework to expand its existing e-commerce platform, a leading ticket exchange facilitator gained first-mover advantage in the Asian market and emerged an online ticketing giant, boasting stronger business capabilities, better customer service, and sales tools across 31 countries.</p>
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<p>China, Japan, South Korea, and India represented a booming e-commerce market, and no viable ticket exchange facilitator had yet established a foothold there.</p>
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<p>To scale an existing e-commerce platform quickly enough to expand Asian operations ahead of the competition</p>
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<p>By leveraging the Apache Grails framework to expand its existing e-commerce platform, a leading ticket
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exchange facilitator gained first-mover advantage in the Asian market and emerged an online ticketing
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giant, boasting stronger business capabilities, better customer service, and sales tools across 31
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countries.</p>
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<pclass="space-above"><b>In today's economy, establishing a firm foothold in a new market ahead of the competition often comes down to the ability to build the necessary e-commerce infrastructure fast enough to move into your target territory first.</b></p>
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<p>An e-commerce merchant that facilitates secondary-market ticket transactions for sporting
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matches, live concerts, theatrical performances, and other entertainment events</p>
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competition</p>
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<li>Is an enterprise-class development framework designed specifically to optimize performance in large, complex systems, like e-commerce platforms.</li>
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<li>Facilitates rapid application development for companies that have invested in JVM-based technologies.</li>
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<li>Combines convention-over-configuration, sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and the Groovy language, making it easy for Java developers to learn.</li>
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<li>Seamlessly and transparently integrates and interoperates with Java, the JVM, and existing Java EE containers.</li>
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<li>Is built on top of Spring Boot and leverages Spring Boot's time-saving features, such as Spring-powered dependency injection.</li>
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<li>Applies the “Don't Repeat Yourself” (DRY) principle, thereby eliminating repetition and hidden bugs, and enabling faster and easier enhancements.</li>
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<h3class="space-above">To build an upgraded e-commerce platform that could accommodate:</h3>
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competition often comes down to the ability to build the necessary e-commerce infrastructure fast
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enough to move into your target territory first.</strong></p>
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in large, complex systems, like e-commerce platforms.</li>
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technologies.</li>
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<li>Combines convention-over-configuration, sensible defaults, opinionated APIs, and the Groovy
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language, making it easy for Java developers to learn.</li>
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Java EE containers.</li>
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<li>Is built on top of Spring Boot and leverages Spring Boot's time-saving features, such as
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Spring-powered dependency injection.</li>
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<li>Applies the “Don't Repeat Yourself” (DRY) principle, thereby eliminating repetition and
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hidden bugs, and enabling faster and easier enhancements.</li>
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it ideal for budget-conscious businesses.</li>
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<p>With Grails and its fantastic built-in testing framework, we have increased core logic coverage, while simultaneously reducing application bugs.</p>
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<p>Another KPI that makes our product better is that using Grails makes our developers more productive and happy, which makes everyone happy – including the business.</p>
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<h1>APACHE GRAILS® FRAMEWORK USHERS COMPLEX LEGACY SYSTEM INTO THE FUTURE</h1>
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<p>A massive, decentralized university database gets a modern upgrade driven by the power and interoperability of the open source Grails framework.</p>
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