Web Development Using Grails Training

This course teaches experienced web developers how to use the Grails framework to rapidly create sophisticated web applications.

• Develop model-view-controller web applications using Grails
• Access relational databases from Grails
• Work with existing Java classes and libraries
• Build unit and functional tests for web applications

All attendees should be familiar with web development in Java, including servlets, JSPs, and database access. Knowledge of Groovy is assumed but reviewed.

• Groovy Fundamentals
  • Differences between Groovy and Java
  • Declaring classes
  • Using assertions
  • Groovy Strings
  • Closures
  • Lists and Maps
  • Expando Objects
  • Ranges
  • Metaprogramming
  • Builders
• Grails Project Structure
  • Overview of a Grails project
  • Directories for model classes, controllers, and views
  • Data source configuration
  • Logging
  • Command line utilities
  • IDE integration
• Application Entities
  • Object-Relational Mapping with GORM
  • Optional properties
  • Constraints and validation
  • Modeling relationships
  • Performing CRUD operations
  • Dynamic queries
  • Connection to Hibernate
• Scaffolding
  • Dynamic scaffolding
  • Working with the dynamic operations
  • Static scaffolding
  • Generating controllers
  • Generating views
• Grails Controllers
  • Setting the default action
  • Accessing request attributes
  • Flash scope
  • Data binding and type conversion
  • Rendering a response
  • Using action interception
• Groovy Server Pages
  • Groovy scriptlets
  • Built-in Grails tags
  • Dynamic tags
  • Layouts and templates
  • Pagination
  • Creating custom tags
• Adding Ajax Support
  • Basics of Ajax
  • Handling events
  • Ajax-supporting tags
• Services and Jobs
  • Transactions
  • Services and dependency injection
• Java Integration
  • ORM integration with Hibernate
  • Dependency injection with Spring
  • Working with legacy databases