Highlights of Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional (Meera Subbarao)
Book, Grails, Meera Subbarao, Summary July 17th, 2008
Meera Subbarao has written a short summary on Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional, a book we previously reported was about to hit the streets a month ago. Meera has written many book reviews and summaries before (you may find some of them at java.dzone previously known as JavaLobby), also Groovy is no unknown topic to her. She writes:
The main highlights of this book are:
- Full coverage of basic Grails features of scaffolding, domains, controllers, services, and Groovy Server pages
- Tackles common web application challenges such as security, Ajax, web services, reporting, batch processing, and deployment
- Includes a Swing desktop client built in Groovy that integrates with the application using the exposed web services
Who should read this book
This book is for Java developers and organizations looking to become more productive by taking advantage of dynamic languages and solid agile web frameworks while lever-aging current investments in infrastructure, code, and education in the Java platform. It is for those who want to build internal applications and mission-critical, Internet-facing applications.
This book does not assume the reader has a strong Java or Groovy background, so those familiar with other dynamic languages like Perl, Ruby, Python, or PHP will find this a great source for investigating the Groovy and Grails alternative.How This Book Is Organized
In this book, you’ll explore how to build command-line, Swing, and web applications using the Groovy language and the Grails web framework. The step-by-step approach will take you from a simple to a complex and fully featured Web 2.0 application. Chapters 1–3 provide a basic Groovy language primer, while Chapters 4–12 explain how to build and deploy web applications using Grails. The final chapter explains how to use Groovy and Swing to build a desktop client that interacts with the Grails web application.
As with other books offered by the publisher, this one includes source code you may download and play with. The official book’s website is http://www.beginninggroovyandgrails.com.
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