Grails in Action, Second Edition you own this product

Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook
Foreword by Dierk König
  • June 2014
  • ISBN 9781617290961
  • 576 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • includes free previous edition eBook

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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 2.3 core skills as you apply TDD techniques to developing a full-scale Twitter clone. Along the way you'll learn the latest single-page web app UI techniques, work with NoSQL backends, integrate with enterprise messaging, and implement a complete RESTful API for your services.

about the technology

It may be time for you to stop reconfiguring, rewriting, and recompiling your Java web apps. Grails, a Groovy-powered web framework, hides all that busy work so you can concentrate on what your applications do, not how they're built. In addition to its famously intuitive dev environment and seamless integration with Spring and Hibernate, the new Grails 2.3 adds improved REST support, better protection against attacks from the web, and better dependency resolution.

about the book

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.

what's inside

  • Covers Grails 2.3 from the ground up
  • Agile delivery and testing using Spock
  • How to use and manage plugins
  • Tips and tricks from the trenches

about the reader

No Java or Groovy knowledge is required. Some web development and OOP experience is helpful.

about the authors

There's no substitute for experience: Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook have been fixtures in the Grails community, contributing code, blogging, and speaking at conferences worldwide, since Grails 0.2.

Provides a solid foundation ... covers best practices and background knowledge.

From the Foreword by Dierk König, author of "Groovy in Action"

The canonical guide to Grails.

Jerry Gaines, 4impact Group

Packed with practical examples.

Pratap Chatterjee, Karolinska Institute

The best resource to help you get ridiculously productive!

Michael A. Angelo, Laird Technologies

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