Groovy and Grails Recipes [Paperback]

Groovy and Grails Recipes is the busy developer's guide to developing applications in Groovy and Grails. Rather than boring you with theoretical knowledge of yet another language/framework, this book delves straight into solving reallife problems in Groovy and Grails using easytounderstand, wellexplained code snippets. Through learning by example, you will be able to pick up on Groovy and Grails quickly and use the book as an essential reference when developing applications.Groovy by example.- Getting Started with Groovy.- From Java to Groovy.- Groovy Data types and Control Structures.- Object-Oriented Groovy.- Closures.- Builders.- Working with Databases.- Testing with Groovy.- Miscellaneous Recipes.- Grails by Example.- Getting Started with Grails.- the Web Layer.- the Data Layer.- Scaffolding.- Security.- Testing.- Miscellaneous Recipes.Bashar Abdul Jawad is a senior software engineer at Video Monitoring Services, Inc., as well as a practicing Java, Groovy, and Grails expert, and he has a number of web sites in operation today based on Groovy and Grails.First practical real world code cookbook that includes both Groovy language and its Groovy-based Web framework, Grails Groovy and Grails remain early in their adoption cycle, but is starting to attract more and more of the corporate customer who would prefer Groovy and Grails for their already existing Java-based legacy IT infrastructure than to change all together in order to use Ruby on Rails, at least as perceived Groovy/Grails can integrate with other hot Java technologies like Spring Framework and Hibernate