Introduction to Grails

In the Introduction to Grails training course, you'll learn:

• Introduction to Grails (Part II of course)
  • What is Grails?
  • How does Groovy fit with Grails
  • Review of Model-View-Controller paradigm
  • Key Grails concepts
    • Scaffolding
    • Convention over configuration
    • Closures
    • Metaprogramming
  • Install Grails
• Creating your first Grails App
  • Generate a basic "hello world" app
  • Examine of what was creating
  • Understand the directory structure and dependencies
• Database Development with Grails
  • Connect to an external database
  • Review of Groovy database development concepts
• Grails Models
  • Review of model
  • Create Groovy classes as models
• Grails Controllers
  • Review of the Controller
  • Generate controllers
  • Create a dynamic scaffolding
  • Examine request/response processing
• Groovy Views
  • Review of the View
  • Create a Groovy Server Page (GSP)
  • Work with GSP tags
  • Create and modify templates
• Database Development with GORM
  • Understand GORM - Grails Object/Relational Mapper
  • Use GORM for CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete)
  • Work with Dynamic Finders, Hibernate Query Language, and Find by Example
• Understanding Groovy Services
  • Review of the command pattern
  • Understand where services fit within a Grails application
  • Implement a command pattern as a Service
• Ajax and Groovy
  • Overview of Ajax and its capabilities
  • Integrate Ajax with Groovy using GSPs and Prototype.js
  • Work with HTML, XML, and JSON results