ISBN: 9788184049084    Publisher: Shroff/Packt Year of publishing: 2010     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 332        Language: English

Web development is tricky-even a simple web application has a number of context changes ready to trip up the unwary. Grails takes the everyday pain out of web application development, allowing us to focus on delivering real application logic and create seamless experiences that will address the needs of our users. This book will take the pain out of Grails by showing you exactly how to build a web application with a minimum of fuss. What you will learn from this book Understand the relationship between Grails and the Groovy scripting language Learn enough about Groovy to get you writing your first Grails applications Use the built-in AJAX support to enhance user interaction and create slick user interfaces with the RichUI plug-in Develop and use a REST service interface and provide an API through REST Handle file upload and versioning allowing users to share files Get to grips with automated testing to write functional tests that drive the application Expose your application to other developers with a RESTful API Approach This book is a guide to building a rich web application using Grails. The approach taken for building the application is incremental and iterative; each chapter will produce a working addition to the application, or iterate over existing features, as well as introduce and carefully explain the new part of the Grails framework used. The book does not go into exhaustive descriptions of every detail of Grails. While there is a lot of code in the book, there are very few large code listings. As you will find, it is not necessary to write reams of code to get results using Groovy and Grails. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at Java web developers looking for ways to build web applications quickly and wanting to find out how it's done quickly. Grails is built on the Groovy language, but experience in Groovy is not required, as you will learn enough about Groovy to understand how to use Grails.
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