Beginning Groovy, Grails and Griffon

by Christopher M Judd, Joseph Faisal Nusairat, Jim Shingler, Vishal Layka

Overview

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, Grails and Griffon is the first introductory book on the Groovy language and its primary web framework, Grails. Griffon is also covered. While Grails is the Web framework for building Groovy Web applications, Griffon is the deskop framework for building desktop Groovy applications. Could Groovy be the new Java? It's light, fast and free (open source).

This book gets you started with Groovy, Grails and Griffon, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430248064
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/24/2012
Series:	Expert's Voice in Java
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Christopher Judd is president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC. He is an international speaker, open source evangelist, leader of the Central Ohio Java Users Group, and coauthor of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003). He has spent 12 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and transportation. His focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME), mobile technologies, and related technologies.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Groovy and Grails
• Groovy Basics
• More Advanced Groovy
• Introduction to Grails
• Building the User Interface
• Building Domains and Services
• Security in Grails
• HTML5, Ajax and JavaScript
• Web Services
• Reports
• Batch Processing
• Deployment and Upgrading
• Introduction to Griffon