{"product_id":"9781430243786","title":"The Definitive Guide to Grails 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrails is a full stack framework which aims to greatly simplify the task of building serious web applications for the JVM. The concepts within Grails, like interceptors, tag libs, and Groovy Server Pages (GSP), make those in the Java community feel right at home.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGrails’ foundation is on solid open source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, and SiteMesh, which gives it even more potential in the Java space: Spring provides powerful inversion of control and MVC, Hibernate brings a stable, mature object relational mapping technology with the ability to integrate with legacy systems, and SiteMesh handles flexible layout control and page decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGrails complements these with additional features that take advantage of the coding–by–convention paradigm such as dynamic tag libraries, Grails object relational mapping, Groovy Server Pages, and scaffolding.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraeme Rocher\u003c\/strong\u003e, Grails lead and founder, and \u003cstrong\u003eJeff Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e bring you completely up–to–date with their authoritative and fully comprehensive guide to the Grails 2 framework. You’ll get to know all the core features, services, and Grails extensions via plug–ins, and understand the roles that Groovy and Grails are playing in the changing Web.\u003c\/p\u003e  What you’ll learn\u003cul\u003e   \u003cli\u003eDiscover how the Web is changing and the role the Groovy language and its Grails framework play \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eGet to know the Grails Project and its domains, services, filters, controllers, views, testing, and plug–ins \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eExperience the availability of plug–ins for Rich Client and Ajax, web services, performance\/utilities, scheduling, security, functionality, and even Persistence \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eSee how Grails works with other frameworks like Spring, Wicket, Hibernate, and more \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eCreate custom plug–ins in Grails \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  Who this book is for\u003cp\u003eThis book is for everyone who is looking for a more agile approach to web development with a dynamic scripting language such as Groovy. This includes a large number of Java developers who have been enticed by the productivity gains seen with frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, JRuby on Rails, etc. The Web and its environment is a perfect fit for easily adaptable and concise languages such as Groovy and Ruby, and there is huge interest from the developer community in general to embrace these languages. \u003c\/p\u003e     Table of Contents\u003col\u003e   \u003cli\u003eThe Essence of Grails \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eGetting Started with Grails 2 \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Domain Classes \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Controllers \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Views \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eMapping URLs \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eInternationalization \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eAjax \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eGORM \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eServices \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eDependency Management \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003ePlugins \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127553835248,"sku":"9781430243786","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430243786_p0.jpg?v=1763750952","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430243786","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}