Web development is trickyóeven a simple web application has a number of context changes ready to trip up the unwary. Grails takes the everyday pain out of web application development, allowing us to focus on delivering real application logic and create seamless experiences that will address the needs of our users.
This book will take the pain out of Grails by showing you exactly how to build a web application with a minimum of fuss.With this book, even if you are new to Grails, you will be up and running before you know it. This clear and concise book is packed with examples and clear instructions to help you build your first Grails application and gives you the skills to speed up your application development by adding a different angle for learning about the topic.
After a brief introduction to the dynamic JVM-based Groovy programming language, which teaches you enough about Groovy to understand the relationship between Grails and the Groovy scripting language, it shows how to use Grails and a number of key plug-ins to deliver valuable web applications. It also takes you through creating, developing, testing, and deploying an example team collaboration application in Grails.Using an incremental and iterative approach you will learn how to build a basic web application with secure authentication and different levels of authorization.
Some advanced features of object-oriented persistence will be introduced through adding tags for messages and files to giving users a robust categorization system.You will then build on the basic application to enhance the user experience through AJAX and the RichUI plug-in.
