Table of Contents

The Essence of Grails.- Getting Started with Grails.- Understanding Domain Classes.- Understanding Controllers.- Understanding Views.- Mapping URLs.- Internationalization.- Ajax.- Creating Web Flows.- GORM.- Services.- Integrating Grails.- Plugins.- Security.- Web Services.- Leveraging Spring.- Legacy Integration with Hibernate.

About the Author

Graeme Rocher is an experienced software engineer, consultant and dynamic language expert. Graeme is project lead of the open source Grails web application framework (Grails.org) and author of The Definitive Guide to Grails. In Graeme's role as head of Grails development at SpringSource, the professional open source services company behind the Spring framework, Graeme leads the development of the Grails web framework and provides consulting, training and support to SpringSource's clients. Graeme is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on subjects related to Groovy, Grails and dynamic languages in Java. Prior to joining SpringSource Graeme co-founded G2One the Groovy/Grails Company which was later acquired by SpringSource.