Grails: A Quick-start Guide
by Klein, DaveFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-10-28
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary
Java web development is notoriously tedious, but help is on the way: Grails. Using the principle of convention-over-configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language, Grails takes the pain out of web development and brings back the fun.
Author Biography
Dave is a developer with Contegix, a company specializing in delivering managed internet infrastructure based upon Linux, Mac OS X, JEE, and Grails. Dave has worked as a developer, architect, project manager, mentor, and trainer for the past 15 years, and has presented at user groups and national conferences.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Let Me Tell You About Grails | p. 1 |
| How Does Grails Do It? | p. 2 |
| Why This Book? | p. 3 |
| Who Should Read This Book | p. 4 |
| Source Code | p. 4 |
| Enough Groovy to Be Dangerous | p. 5 |
| Groovy Syntax Compared to Java | p. 5 |
| Groovy Strings | p. 7 |
| Groovy Closures | p. 8 |
| Groovy Collections | p. 9 |
| Where to from Here? | p. 13 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 14 |
| Our Project | p. 17 |
| Introducing TekDays.com | p. 18 |
| Meet Our Customer | p. 18 |
| Iteration Zero | p. 20 |
| Summary | p. 26 |
| Laying the Foundation | p. 27 |
| Creating a Domain Class | p. 27 |
| More About Domain Classes | p. 29 |
| Testing Our Domain Class | p. 30 |
| Taking Control of Our Domain | p. 33 |
| Modifying Code That Doesn't Exist | p. 34 |
| Bootstrapping Some Test Data | p. 37 |
| Summary | p. 41 |
| Building Relationships | p. 45 |
| The TekUser Domain Class | p. 45 |
| One-to-One Relationships | p. 47 |
| One-to-Many Relationships | p. 52 |
| Collections of Simple Data Types | p. 54 |
| Adding a Sponsor Class | p. 56 |
| Many-to-Many Relationships | p. 58 |
| Finishing Up the Domain Model | p. 63 |
| Summary | p. 65 |
| Beyond Scaffolding | p. 67 |
| Generating Scaffolding Code | p. 67 |
| Anatomy of a Grails Controller | p. 68 |
| Grails Views with Groovy Server Pages | p. 75 |
| Configuring a Database | p. 86 |
| Summary | p. 89 |
| Getting Things Done | p. 91 |
| Changing All Our Views at Once | p. 91 |
| Modifying the Scaffolded Views | p. 92 |
| Event Task List | p. 99 |
| Grails Service Classes | p. 101 |
| Integration Testing | p. 104 |
| Modifying the Task Class | p. 106 |
| Summary | p. 107 |
| Forum Messages and UI Tricks | p. 109 |
| Restricting Messages to an Event | p. 109 |
| Of Templates and Ajax | p. 115 |
| Display Message Threads with a Custom Tag | p. 121 |
| Summary | p. 126 |
| Knock, Knock: Who's There? Grails Security | p. 129 |
| Grails Security Options | p. 129 |
| Logging In | p. 130 |
| Filters | p. 133 |
| Logging Out | p. 136 |
| Summary | p. 138 |
| Big-Picture Views | p. 141 |
| Home Page Makeover | p. 141 |
| Creating a New Controller | p. 144 |
| Designing the Dashboard View | p. 145 |
| Adding the Dashboard Action | p. 151 |
| Adding a Menu | p. 153 |
| Linking to the Dashboard | p. 155 |
| Summary | p. 157 |
| Seek, and You Shall Find | p. 159 |
| Search Using Dynamic Finders | p. 159 |
| Hibernate Criteria Builder | p. 162 |
| The Big Guns: The Searchable Plug-In | p. 166 |
| Summary | p. 173 |
| Icing on the Cake | p. 175 |
| The Grails UI Plug-In | p. 175 |
| The Twitter Plug-In | p. 180 |
| Making the Event Page Customizable with the Blurb Plug-In | p. 186 |
| User-Friendly URLs | p. 190 |
| Summary | p. 193 |
| Deployment and Beyond | p. 195 |
| Using a JNDI Data Source | p. 195 |
| Creating and Deploying a War | p. 197 |
| Next Steps | p. 198 |
| Parting Thoughts | p. 199 |
| Additional CSS Rules | p. 201 |
| Resources | p. 203 |
| Online Resources | p. 203 |
| Meet the G3 Community | p. 204 |
| Other Resources | p. 208 |
| IDE Support | p. 209 |
| Bibliography | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 213 |
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