Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

Product Description

Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today's most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Java developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Grails, an open source framework that supercharges productivity when building Java–driven web sites. Grails is based on Groovy, which is a very popular and growing dynamic scripting language for Java developers and was inspired by Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.

Beginning Groovy and Grails is the first introductory book on the Groovy language and its primary web framework, Grails.

This book gets you started with Groovy and Grails and culminates in the example and possible application of some real–world projects. You follow along with the development of each project, implementing and running each application while learning new features along the way.
What you’ll learn

* Understand the fundamentals of the open source, dynamic Groovy scripting language and the Grails web framework.
* Capitalize upon Grails’ well–defined framework architecture to build web applications faster than ever before.
* Improve your web application with cutting–edge interface enhancements using Ajax.
* Use Grails’ object–relational mapping solution, GORM, to manage your data store more effectively than ever before.
* Take advantage of Groovy to create reporting services, implement batch processing, and create alternative client interfaces.
* Deploy and upgrade your Grails–driven applications with expertise and ease.
* Discover an alternative client in Groovy as well.


Who is this book for?

Java and web developers looking to learn and embrace the power and flexibility offered by the Grails framework and Groovy scripting language
About the Apress Beginning Series

The Beginning series from Apress is the right choice to get the information you need to land that crucial entry–level job. These books will teach you a standard and important technology from the ground up because they are explicitly designed to take you from “novice to professional.” You’ll start your journey by seeing what you need to know—but without needless theory and filler. You’ll build your skill set by learning how to put together real–world projects step by step. So whether your goal is your next career challenge or a new learning opportunity, the Beginning series from Apress will take you there—it is your trusted guide through unfamiliar territory!

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #25369 in Books
* Published on: 2008-06-18
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 440 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC, an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group leader, and the coauthor of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003). He has spent 12 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and transportation. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME), mobile technologies, and related technologies.

Joseph Faisal Nusairat is a software developer who has been
working full time in the Columbus, Ohio, area since 1998, primarily focused on Java development. His career has taken him into a variety of Fortune 500 industries, including military applications, data centers, banking, internet security, pharmaceuticals, and insurance. Throughout this experience, he has worked on all varieties of application development, from design and architecture to development. Joseph, like most Java developers, is particularly fond of open source projects and tries to use as much open source software as possible
when working with clients. Joseph is a graduate of Ohio University with dual degrees in computer science and microbiology and a minor in chemistry. While at Ohio University, Joseph also dabbled in student politics and was a research assistant in the virology labs. Currently, Joseph works as a senior partner at Integrallis Software (http://www.integrallis.com). In his off-hours, he enjoys watching bodybuilding competitions and Broadway musicals, specifically anything with Lauren Molina.

Jim Shingler is a senior consulting IT architect for a major midwestern insurance and financial services company. The focus of his career has been using leading-edge technology to develop IT solutions for the insurance, financial services, and manufacturing industries. He has 11 years of large-scale Java experience and significant experience in distributed and relational technologies.

Customer Reviews

Great Start5
This book is an excellent way to get started with grails development. This book provides a solid foundation and excellent coverage of the grails framework.
The book starts out with a 3 chapter overview of the groovy language. After that starts the Grails Sections, Which are very fluid working though one application (Collab-todo) from start to finish. Showing you how to use features such as plugins, ajax frameworks, security and web services. This book will really get you going with grails fast.

A Beginner's View5
As a Java developer who is a true beginner with Groovy and Grails, I found Beginning Groovy and Grails an excellent starting point. The book's strength is providing a core structure for the Groovy language and the Grails framework, then building on them.

I had read other Groovy books, and still use them as a reference. But BGG kept Groovy at the right level for me to start -- showing the core features without getting bogged down in the details. I was able to work through the examples and get an excellent feel for the power and elegant simplicity of the language.

The Grails overview is an excellent start to understanding the framework. I appreciated the step by step introduction to setting up and evolving a simple web application.

In terms of writing, I found this book very readable. I wish that the copy editors had helped out a bit more in spots, and the errata pick up some glitches in code, but overall I truly appreciated the authors' efforts and have learned a great deal.

Great read!5
I concur with the previous reviews. I've been looking to dive deeper into Groovy and Grails for a while now. I'm hoping this is the first of many new titles to come on this subject. I would really like to see the language and the framework take off as it should. There are many people out there doing cool things with both like Graeme Rocher, Guillaume LaForge, and one of the above reviewers (Scott Davis....you gotta see this guy talk about Groovy if you can!). People who work in the Java space really should give these technologies a look. This book should really get you going. I would also suggest looking at some of the book offerings by the contributors mentioned above. Good stuff. Buy this book!