# Paperback: 600 pages
# Publisher: Apress; 2 edition (November 24, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1590599950
# ISBN-13: 978-1590599952
Product Description
Learn to ingest Grails, the Rails–like surround that uses Groovy and integrates seamlessly with Java, with Grails advance and originator Graeme Rocher. Up to fellow and authoritative, The Definitive Guide to Grails covers every the set features, services, and extensions via plug–ins and module goodness anyone hunting for a more quick move to scheme utilization with a impulsive scripting module much as Groovy.
The uprise of Ruby on Rails has significance a Brobdingnagian agitate in how we physique scheme applications today; it is a strange support with a ontogeny community. There is, however, expanse for added much support that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies hit endowed in Java, and these aforementioned companies are losing discover on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails.
Grails is not meet a Rails clone; it aims to wage a Rails–like surround and idioms that are more old to Java developers, making the fitting in attitude to a impulsive support inferior of a jump. The concepts within Grails much as interceptors, attach libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP) attain those in the Java accord see correct at home.
Grails’ groundwork on solidified unstoppered maker technologies much as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh gives it modify more possibleness in the Java space: Spring provides coercive motion of curb and MVC, Hibernate brings a steady and grown goal relational function profession with the knowledge to combine with heritage systems, and SiteMesh handles pliant layout curb and tender decoration. Grails complements these with added features that verify plus of the coding–by–convention family much as impulsive attach libraries, Grails Object Relational Mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.
What you’ll learn
* See how the Web is changing, and the persona the Groovy module and its Grails support plays.
* Get to undergo the Grails Project and its domains, services, filters, controllers, views, testing, and plug–ins.
* Experience the availability of plug–ins for Rich Client and Ajax, Web services, performance/utilities, scheduling, security, functionality, and modify persistence.
* See how Grails entireness with added frameworks same Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, and more.
* Create bespoken plug–ins in Grails.
Who is this aggregation for?
This aggregation is for everyone who is hunting for a more quick move to scheme utilization with a impulsive scripting module much as Groovy. This includes a super sort of Java developers who hit been enticed by the fecundity gains seen with frameworks much as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its surround is amend sound for easily convertible and apothegmatic languages much as Groovy and Ruby, and there is Brobdingnagian welfare from the developer accord in generalized to acceptation these languages.
Related Titles
* Beginning POJOs: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry
* The Definitive Guide to Grails
* Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects: Bringing Ruby on Rails to Java
About the Author
Graeme Rocher is a code creator and Chief Technology Officer at SkillsMatter. He started his occupation in the e-learning facet as conception of a aggroup nonindustrial ascendible send acquisition content systems supported on J2EE technology. He after ramose into the digital TV field where he was visaged with progressively Byzantine requirements that required an quick move as the ever-changing and teen iDTV platforms evolved. This is where Graeme was prototypal unclothed to Groovy and he began combine Groovy with Cocoon to have impulsive multi-channel noesis content systems targeted at digital TV platforms.
Benefiting from this critic of what Groovy had to offer, Graeme used his skills in his incoming persona at a consort titled KnowledgePool to display a fast e-learning utilization toolkit, titled Originate, that merged Groovy as the cement module to alter unitedly a different arrange of technologies required to attain the creation impact (from VB and Microsoft Word to XSLT, the JavaScriptTM language, and XSL-FO). Soon 80% of every e-Learnig impact produced by KnowledgePool was using the Groovy-based profession to have customized e-learning projects.
Seeing an crescendo way for scheme conveying of services and the complexness this brought, Graeme embarked on added send to simplify this and supported Grails, a support with the gist of Ruby on Rails, but targeted at dripless Java integration. Graeme is the underway send advance of Grails and is a member of the Groovy JSR-241 chief committee.
In his underway persona as CTO at SkillsMatter, a consort specializing in Open Source training, Graeme is in calculate of the companies courseware utilization strategy and generalized theoretical direction. As conception of this persona he actively entireness with a panoramic arrange of professionals from the Open Source accord and speaks at business conferences whenever doable on subjects attendant to Groovy, Grails and impulsive languages in Java.
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