Groovy and Grails Recipes

by Bashar Jawad

Overview

Groovy and Grails Recipes is the busy developer's guide to developing applications in Groovy and Grails. Rather than boring you with theoretical knowledge of “yet another language/framework,” this book delves straight into solving real–life problems in Groovy and Grails using easy–to–understand, well–explained code snippets. Through learning by example, you will be able to pick up on Groovy and Grails quickly and use the book as an essential reference when developing applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430216001
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/09/2008
Series:	Expert's Voice in Open Source
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Bashar Abdul Jawad is a senior software engineer at Video Monitoring Services, Inc., as well as a practicing Java, Groovy, and Grails expert, and he has a number of web sites in operation today based on Groovy and Grails.

Table of Contents

Groovy by example.- Getting Started with Groovy.- From Java to Groovy.- Groovy Data types and Control Structures.- Object-Oriented Groovy.- Closures.- Builders.- Working with Databases.- Testing with Groovy.- Miscellaneous Recipes.- Grails by Example.- Getting Started with Grails.- the Web Layer.- the Data Layer.- Scaffolding.- Security.- Testing.- Miscellaneous Recipes.