Grails in Action

SummaryGrails 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 TechnologyIt 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 BookGrails 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 InsideCovers Grails 2.3 from the ground upAgile delivery and testing using SpockHow to use and manage pluginsTips and tricks from the trenchesAbout the AuthorsThere'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 ContentsPART 1 INTRODUCING GRAILSGrails in a hurryThe Groovy essentialsPART 2 CORE GRAILSModeling the domain 63Creating the initial UIRetrieving the data you needControlling application flowServices and data bindingDeveloping tasty forms, views, and layoutsPART 3 EVERYDAY GRAILSBuilding reliable applicationsUsing plugins: just add waterProtecting your applicationExposing your app to other programsSingle-page web applications (and other UI stuff) Understanding Spring and transactionsPART 4 ADVANCED GRAILSUnderstanding events, messaging, and scheduling NoSQL and GrailsBeyond compile, test, runGrails in the cloudBONUS ONLINE CHAPTERSAdvanced GORM kung fuDeveloping plugins