The Definitive Guide To Grails

The aim of this book is to introduce one of those greener fields that is not so far from home. In fact, its roots are very much embedded in the Java platform that we all know and love. Grails could well be the web application framework that you've been searching for. You will learn how to use the Groovy language with Grails to rapidly prototype applications, develop dynamic tag libraries, create rich domain models, and provide reusable services.

Table of contents :
· The Search for the Holy Grail(s)
· The Groovy Language
· The Grails Project Infrastructure
· The Application Domain
· Scaffolding
· Testing, Testing, Testing
· Grails Controllers
· Groovy Server Pages
· Ajax
· Services and Jobs
· Java Integration


Market Description :
· Web Application developers

About Author :
Graeme Keith Rocher is a software architect and chief technology officer at Skills Matter a skills transfer company specializing in open source technology and agile software development. In his current role as CTO, Graeme is in charge of skills Matter's courseware development strategy and general technical direction. As part of this role he actively works with a wide range of experts from the open source community and speaks at industry conferences whenever possible on subjects related to Groovy, Grails and dynamic languages in Java.