
Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community

"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
The Groovy language, version 1.7, was recently released supporting refinements to the language itself as well as library enhancements. In short succession, SpringSource has announced the Groovy Eclipse IDE 2.0, which brings debugging, refined content-assist, and stub-less compilation to Eclipse's formerly poor Groovy support.
Recently SpringSource released version 1.6 of the Groovy programming language and now they've followed up with a new version of Grails.

Grails and Flex both have significant advantages in different parts of the software stack. In this new article you will learn how they can be combined to take advantage of each's strengths. Topics covered include component communication, data transfer, and JMS integration.

This article discusses the integration of the grails-acegi plugin with a sample Grails application. As part of this integration, there are three major components which will be used – Groovy, Grails and Acegi Security.

In this presentation from SpringOne 2009, Christian Dupuis discusses the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), the philosophy behind STS, the requirements behind STS, the STS 2.1 and 2.2 featureset, several demos of STS capabilities, Groovy and Grails, Spring 3.0, autowiring, namespaces, REST, cross-cutting annotations, AJDT, Spring Roo, Cloud Foundry, tc Server, dm Server, VMWare, and the STS roadmap.

In this keynote, Rod Johnson discusses the history of Spring, the core Spring values, Spring 3.0 features, upgrading the Spring Portfolio to use Spring 3.0, Spring Integration, Groovy, Grails, Grails plugins, tc Server, Spring Insight, SpringSource Tool Suite, the VMWare acquisition, Cloud Foundry and the Enterprise Java Cloud.

Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher talk about the new features in Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2, how Groovy and Grails are related to each other, and how the acquisition by SpringSource has affected their development.

Groovy project manager Guillaume Laforge discusses the history of Groovy, it's relationship to Java, where Groovy fits into Java development,how Groovy compares to Ruby, how Groovy enables domain-specific languages, and what future Groovy development will focus on.

"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?

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.