Programming Grails: Best Practices for Experienced Grails Developers

Dig deeper into Grails architecture anddiscover how this application framework works its magic. Written by a coredeveloper on the Grails team, this practical guide takes you behind the curtainto reveal the inner workings of its 2.0 feature set. You’ll learn bestpractices for building and deploying Grails applications, includingperformance, security, scaling, tuning, debugging, and monitoring.

Understand how Grails integrates with Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, and other JVMtechnologies, and learn how to create and use plugins to augment yourapplication’s functionality. Once you know how Grails adds behavior byconvention, you can solve problems more easily and develop applications moreintuitively.

• Write simpler, more powerful code with the Groovy language
• Manage persistence in Grails, using Hibernate or a NoSQL datastore
• Learn how Grails uses Spring’s functionality and optional modules
• Discover how Hibernate handles details for storing and retrieving data
• Integrate technologies for messaging, mail, creating web services, and other JEE technologies
• Bypass convention and configure Grails manually
• Learn a general approach to upgrading applications and plugins
• Use Grails to develop and deploy IaaS and PaaS applications