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
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Covers Grails 2.3 from the ground up
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Agile delivery and testing using Spock
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How to use and manage plugins
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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
- Grails in a hurry
- The Groovy essentials
- 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
- 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
- Understanding events, messaging, and scheduling
- NoSQL and Grails
- Beyond compile, test, run
- Grails in the cloud
- Advanced GORM kung fu
- Developing plugins
