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Download the definitive guide to grails, 2nd edition

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The Definitive Guide to Grails, 2nd Edition Publisher: Apress; 2 edition | January 15, 2009 | 648 pages | English | ISBN 10: 1590599950 | 11.7 MB The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge Download graphicriver 3d object - food bag mock-up 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 that 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. Youll 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. What you will learn Discover how the Web is changing and the role the Groovy language and its Rails framework plays. Get to know the Grails Project and its domains, services, filters, controllers, views, testing, and plug ins. Experience the availability of plug ins for Rich Client and Ajax, web services, performance/utilities, scheduling, security, functionality, and even Persistence. See how Grails works with other frameworks like Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, and more. Create custom plugins in Grails. Who is this book for? This book is for everyone who is looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. This includes a large number of Java developers who have been enticed by the productivity gains seen with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its environment is a perfect fit for easily adaptable and concise languages such as Groovy and Ruby, and there is huge interest from the developer community in general to embrace these languages.