Programming Grails

Preface

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

2. Grails Internals
-Installing Grails
-The Grails Command Line
-IDE Support
-Plugins
-Conventions
-More Information

3. Persistence
-Data Mapping
-Data Validation
-Transients
-Mapping Collections
-Querying
-Saving, Updating, and Deleting
-NoSQL Support

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

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

6. Integration
-JMS
-Mail
-SOAP Web Services
-REST
-JMX

7. Configuration
-External config Files
-Splitting resources.groovy
-Modularizing Within resources.groovy
-Environment-Specific Spring Beans
-Options for BuildConfig.groovy
-Adding Additional Source Folders

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

9. Security
-OWASP
-Security Plugins
-Other Plugins and Libraries
-General Best Practices

10. The Cloud
-Cost Savings
-What You Give Up
-Cloud Foundry
-Heroku
-Other Providers
-Other Uses for Cloud Services

11. AOP
-Grails Filters
-HTTP Filters
-Groovy AOP
-Spring AOP

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