RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Fast track to super productivity
Covers Grails 2.1 from the ground up
Tons of tips and tricks from the trenches
AUDIENCE
No Java or Groovy background is required, but it is helpful for readers to have a background in web development and knowledge of an object-oriented language.
Product Description
DESCRIPTION
Web apps shouldn't be hard to build, right? The developers of Grails agree. This hyper-productive open-source web framework offers "code by convention", leaving developers to focus on what makes their app special. Through its use of Groovy, it gives a powerful, Java-like language and full access to all Java libraries.
Grails in Action is a comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. First, it covers the basics: the domain model, controllers, views, and services. Then, the fun! It dives into a Twitter-style app with features like AJAX/JSON, animation, search, wizards—even messaging and Jabber integration. It also offers loads of great plugins that'll make apps shine.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Fast track to super productivity
Covers Grails 2.1 from the ground up
Tons of tips and tricks from the trenches
AUDIENCE
No Java or Groovy background is required, but it is helpful for readers to have a background in web development and knowledge of an object-oriented language.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Grails is an open source web application framework which uses the Groovy programming language. This hyper-productive open-source web framework lets developers "code by convention", leaving them to focus on what makes their apps special.
Summary
Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2 focused on making you super-productive fast. In this totally revised new edition, you'll master Grails 2.3 core skills as you apply TDD techniques to developing a full-scale Twitter clone. Along the way you'll learn the latest single-page web app UI techniques, work with NoSQL backends, integrate with enterprise messaging, and implement a complete RESTful API for your services.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
It may be time for you to stop reconfiguring, rewriting, and recompiling your Java web apps. Grails, a Groovy-powered web framework, hides all that busy work so you can concentrate on what your applications do, not how they're built. In addition to its famously intuitive dev environment and seamless integration with Spring and Hibernate, the new Grails 2.3 adds improved REST support, better protection against attacks from the web, and better dependency resolution.
About the Book
Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2. In this totally revised edition you'll master Grails as you apply TDD techniques to a full-scale example (a Twitter clone). Along the way you'll learn single-page web app techniques, work with NoSQL back ends, integrate with enterprise messaging, implement a RESTful API ... and more.
No Java or Groovy knowledge is required. Some web development and OOP experience is helpful.
What's Inside
About the Authors
There's no substitute for experience: Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook have been fixtures in the Grails community, contributing code, blogging, and speaking at conferences worldwide, since Grails 0.2.
Table of Contents
Fast track to super productivity
Covers Grails 2.1 from the ground up
Tons of tips and tricks from the trenches
AUDIENCE
No Java or Groovy background is required, but it is helpful for readers to have a background in web development and knowledge of an object-oriented language.
Product Description
DESCRIPTION
Web apps shouldn't be hard to build, right? The developers of Grails agree. This hyper-productive open-source web framework offers "code by convention", leaving developers to focus on what makes their app special. Through its use of Groovy, it gives a powerful, Java-like language and full access to all Java libraries.
Grails in Action is a comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. First, it covers the basics: the domain model, controllers, views, and services. Then, the fun! It dives into a Twitter-style app with features like AJAX/JSON, animation, search, wizards—even messaging and Jabber integration. It also offers loads of great plugins that'll make apps shine.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Fast track to super productivity
Covers Grails 2.1 from the ground up
Tons of tips and tricks from the trenches
AUDIENCE
No Java or Groovy background is required, but it is helpful for readers to have a background in web development and knowledge of an object-oriented language.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Grails is an open source web application framework which uses the Groovy programming language. This hyper-productive open-source web framework lets developers "code by convention", leaving them to focus on what makes their apps special.
Summary
Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2 focused on making you super-productive fast. In this totally revised new edition, you'll master Grails 2.3 core skills as you apply TDD techniques to developing a full-scale Twitter clone. Along the way you'll learn the latest single-page web app UI techniques, work with NoSQL backends, integrate with enterprise messaging, and implement a complete RESTful API for your services.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
It may be time for you to stop reconfiguring, rewriting, and recompiling your Java web apps. Grails, a Groovy-powered web framework, hides all that busy work so you can concentrate on what your applications do, not how they're built. In addition to its famously intuitive dev environment and seamless integration with Spring and Hibernate, the new Grails 2.3 adds improved REST support, better protection against attacks from the web, and better dependency resolution.
About the Book
Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2. In this totally revised edition you'll master Grails as you apply TDD techniques to a full-scale example (a Twitter clone). Along the way you'll learn single-page web app techniques, work with NoSQL back ends, integrate with enterprise messaging, implement a RESTful API ... and more.
No Java or Groovy knowledge is required. Some web development and OOP experience is helpful.
What's Inside
- Covers Grails 2.3 from the ground up
- Agile delivery and testing using Spock
- How to use and manage plugins
- Tips and tricks from the trenches
About the Authors
There's no substitute for experience: Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook have been fixtures in the Grails community, contributing code, blogging, and speaking at conferences worldwide, since Grails 0.2.
Table of Contents
- PART 1 INTRODUCING GRAILS
- Grails in a hurry
- The Groovy essentials PART 2 CORE GRAILS
- Modeling the domain 63
- Creating the initial UI
- Retrieving the data you need
- Controlling application flow
- Services and data binding
- Developing tasty forms, views, and layouts PART 3 EVERYDAY GRAILS
- Building reliable applications
- Using plugins: just add water
- Protecting your application
- Exposing your app to other programs
- Single-page web applications (and other UI stuff)
- Understanding Spring and transactions PART 4 ADVANCED GRAILS
- Understanding events, messaging, and scheduling
- NoSQL and Grails
- Beyond compile, test, run
- Grails in the cloud BONUS ONLINE CHAPTERS
- Advanced GORM kung fu
- Developing plugins