Beginning Groovy, Grails and Griffon

Description

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction to Groovy....Pages 1-14 Groovy Basics....Pages 15-56 More Advanced Groovy....Pages 57-88 Introduction to Grails....Pages 89-124 Building the User Interface....Pages 125-154 Building Domains and Services....Pages 155-188 Security in Grails....Pages 189-215 Web 2.0—Ajax and Friends....Pages 217-240 Web Services....Pages 241-255 Reporting....Pages 257-277 Batch Processing....Pages 279-289 Deploying and Upgrading Grails Applications....Pages 291-303 Introduction to Griffon....Pages 305-331 Back Matter....Pages 333-341