Glen Smith

A frequent speaker and the co-host of the Grails podcast, Glen Smith launched the first public-facing Grails app (an SMS Gateway) on Grails 0.2. Peter Ledbrook is a core Grails developer and author of several popular plugins, who has worked as an engineer for both G2One and SpringSource.

books by Glen Smith

Grails in Action, Second Edition
  • June 2014
  • ISBN 9781617290961
  • 576 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Web / Backend Frameworks

Grails in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Grails 2. In this totally revised edition you'll master Grails as you apply TDD techniques to a full-scale example (a Twitter clone). Along the way you'll learn single-page web app techniques, work with NoSQL back ends, integrate with enterprise messaging, implement a RESTful API ... and more.