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Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Groovy
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Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today's most compelling
web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing
developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features.
Java developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able
to take advantage of Grails, an open source framework that supercharges productivity
when building Java–driven web sites. Grails is based on Groovy, which
is a very popular and growing dynamic scripting language for Java developers
and was inspired by Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.
Beginning Groovy and Grails is the first introductory book on the Groovy language
and its primary web framework, Grails.
This book gets you started with Groovy and Grails and culminates in the example
and possible application of some real–world projects. You follow along
with the development of each project, implementing and running each application
while learning new features along the way.
What you'll learn:
• Understand the fundamentals of the open source, dynamic Groovy scripting
language and the Grails web framework.
• Capitalize upon Grails' well–defined framework architecture
to build web applications faster than ever before.
• Improve your web application with cutting–edge interface enhancements
using Ajax.
• Use Grails' object–relational mapping solution, GORM, to
manage your data store more effectively than ever before.
• Take advantage of Groovy to create reporting services, implement batch
processing, and create alternative client interfaces.
• Deploy and upgrade your Grails–driven applications with expertise
and ease.
• Discover an alternative client in Groovy as well.
Who is this book for?
Java and web developers looking to learn and embrace the power and flexibility
offered by the Grails framework and Groovy scripting language.
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explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You'll
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together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your
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Table of Contents
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction to Groovy
Chapter 2 Groovy Basics
Chapter 3 More Advanced Groovy
Chapter 4 Introduction to Grails
Chapter 5 Building the User Interface
Chapter 6 Building Domains and Services
Chapter 7 Security in Grails
Chapter 8 Web 2.0.Ajax and Friends
Chapter 9 Web Services
Chapter 10 Reporting
Chapter 11 Batch Processing
Chapter 12 Deploying and Upgrading
Chapter 13 Alternative Clients
Index
About the Authors
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions,
LLC, an international speaker, a board member of the Central Ohio Java Users
Group, and a JBuilder certified developer and instructor. He has spent 7 years
developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and
transportation industries. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training
with Java, J2EE, and related technologies.
Joseph Faisal Nusairat is an experienced Java/J2EE developer with more
than six years of Java programming experience in a consulting role. He's
always looking for challenging assignments to build innovative and robust Java
applications using JBoss and other innovative frameworks.
Jim Shingler is a senior consulting IT architect for a major midwestern
insurance and financial services company. The focus of his career has been using
leading-edge technology to develop IT solutions for the insurance, financial
services, and manufacturing industries. He has 11 years of large-scale Java
experience and significant experience in distributed and relational technologies.
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