In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Grails application, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.
The Groovy language is bringing many of the features that have become popular in Ruby to Java and the JVM. Groovy in Action by Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge and Jon Skeet provides a guided tour to learning the language and places it can be put to use. . InfoQ is excited to present an excerpt of the book of along with a review by Grails team member Jason Rudolph.
Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore the various aspects of Grails and also experience Grails by building a Grails app.
