Programming Grails

Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last four years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 35 Grails plugins. Burt is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups where he shares his passion for Grails and other Groovy-based technologies, in particular those that are related to persistence, security, and performance. He blogs at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Groovy
Installing Groovy
Optional Typing
Collections and Maps
Properties
Closures
Groovy’s Contributions in the War Against Verbosity
Differences Between Java and Groovy
Groovy Strings
Static this
The Groovy JDK (GDK)
Metaprogramming and the MOP
Adding Methods
Operators
Overload Your Operators
def Considered Harmful
Closures Versus Methods
TypeChecked, CompileStatic, and invokedynamic
Chapter 2 Grails Internals
Installing Grails
The Grails Command Line
IDE Support
Plugins
Conventions
More Information
Chapter 3 Persistence
Data Mapping
Data Validation
Transients
Mapping Collections
Querying
Saving, Updating, and Deleting
NoSQL Support
Chapter 4 Spring
Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection
Bean Scopes
Transactional Services
Bean Life Cycles and Interfaces
Bean Postprocessors
Bean Aliases
Internationalization
Resources
Data Binding and Validation
Database Persistence
Spring MVC
Remoting
JMS
EJBs
JMX
Email
Cache Abstraction
Chapter 5 Hibernate
Mapping Domain Classes
Dialects
Hibernate Without GORM
The Session
Open Session in View
Custom User Types
Optimistic and Pessimistic Locking
Accessing the Session’s Connection
schema-export
SQL Logging
Proxies
Caching
HQL
Collections Performance
Session.createFilter()
Custom Configurations
Mapping Views and Subselect Classes
get(), load(), and read()
Performance
Chapter 6 Integration
JMS
Mail
SOAP Web Services
REST
JMX
Chapter 7 Configuration
External config Files
Splitting resources.groovy
Modularizing Within resources.groovy
Environment-Specific Spring Beans
Options for BuildConfig.groovy
Adding Additional Source Folders
Chapter 8 Plugins
Creating a Plugin
The Plugin Descriptor
Splitting Applications into Plugins
Building and Releasing
Running the Tests
Custom Plugin Repositories
Plugin Documentation
Custom Artifacts
Some Notes on Plugin Development Workflow
Chapter 9 Security
OWASP
Security Plugins
Other Plugins and Libraries
General Best Practices
Chapter 10 The Cloud
Cost Savings
What You Give Up
Cloud Foundry
Heroku
Other Providers
Other Uses for Cloud Services
Chapter 11 AOP
Grails Filters
HTTP Filters
Groovy AOP
Spring AOP
Chapter 12 Upgrading Applications and Plugins
Why Doesn’t the Upgrade Script Do More?
A General Approach to Upgrading
A Short History of Grails
Notes on Upgrading
Index
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