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Grails in Action, Second Edition Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook MEAP Began: September 2012 Softbound print: Fall 2013 | 525 pages ISBN: 9781617290961 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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PART 1 INTRODUCING GRAILS
1 Grails in a hurry... - FREE 2 The Groovy essentials - AVAILABLE PART 2 CORE GRAILS 3 Modeling the domain - AVAILABLE 4 Creating the first UI - AVAILABLE 5 Retrieving the data you need - AVAILABLE 6 Controlling application flow - AVAILABLE 7 Services & Data Binding - AVAILABLE 8 Developing tasty views, forms, and layouts - AVAILABLE PART 3 EVERYDAY GRAILS 9 Building reliable applications 10 Keeping quality high 11 Using plugins: adding Web 2.0 in 60 minutes 12 Protecting your application 13 Exposing your app to other programs 14 Getting serious about your UI 15 Understanding messaging and scheduling PART 4 ADVANCED GRAILS 16 Understanding Spring and transactions 17 Advanced GORM kung fu 18 Leveraging NoSQL from Grails 19 Putting your app into the Cloud 20 Going beyond compile, test, and run 21 Developing plugins |
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DESCRIPTION
Here's an easy question: Would you rather spend your time configuring, recompiling, restarting, and rewriting Java webapps or concentrate on building amazing web solutions for your clients? Grails is an open-source web framework for developers ready to dump the busy work and get things done. Powered by Groovy, Grails runs on the JVM and gives you the modern features you expect in a full-stack framework in a productive, familiar, development environment. And Grails 2.1 brings even more to the table, including improved dependency resolution, a reliable JVM agent to reload changes, and new test and documentation templates.
Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2 focused on making you super productive fast. In this totally-revised new edition, you'll master Grails 2.1 core skills as you apply Test-Driven Development techniques to developing a full scale Twitter clone. Along the way you'll learn the latest "single-page webapp" UI techniques, work with NoSQL backends, integrate with enterprise messaging, and implement a complete RESTful API for your services.
There's no substitute for experience, and Peter Ledbrook and Glen Smith invest their years using Grails into this book. With their expert guidance, you'll discover the most appropriate techniques and learn how to avoid the pitfalls.
What's Inside:
- Covers Grails 2.1 from the ground up
- Practical focus on Agile delivery and testing using Spock
- The latest in NoSQL, RESTful Services and single-page webapps
- Integration with existing enterprise technologies
- Plugin development top to bottom
- A concise Groovy primer
- Tons of tips and tricks from the trenches
No Java or Groovy background is required, but it is helpful for readers to have a background in web development and knowledge of an object-oriented language.
About The Authors:
Peter Ledbrook is a core Grails developer, author of several popular plugins, and a veteran of the companies behind Grails: G2One, SpringSource, & VMware. As a popular Grails conference speaker, trainer, and prolific contributor to the Grails mailing list, Peter has a unique insight into what makes great Grails applications, and the best way to teach people how to develop them. Co-host of the Grails Podcast, Glen Smith has been contributing to the Grails community through blogging, sample apps and conference talks since Grails 0.2! With a distinctly Australian sense of humor, he loves training people on pragmatic and agile techniques for getting great software out the door.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Grails in Action, Second Edition enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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