Overview
- This will be the first and only definitive book on the agile open source lightweight Grails (“Groovy on Rails” analogous to Ruby on Rails) Framework 1.0 release
- Written by the open source Grails project founder and lead, Graeme Rocher
- Emerging growth area with support from key open source lightweight projects like Spring, Hibernate, Wicket and more
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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About this book
The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails–like framework. Enter Grails.
Grails is not just a Rails clone. It aims to provide a Rails–like environment that is more familiar to Java developers and employs idioms that Java developers are comfortable using, making the adjustment in mentality to a dynamic framework less of a jump. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home.
Grails' foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration.
Grails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding–by–convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.
Graeme Rocher, Grails lead and founder, and Jeff Brown bring you completely up–to–date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails framework. You'll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug–ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Definitive Guide to Grails
Authors: Graeme Rocher, Jeff Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0871-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Graeme Rocher and Jeff Scott Brown 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-59059-995-2Published: 14 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-0871-6Published: 19 February 2009
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: 648
Topics: Java, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems