In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis shows you how to take advantage of the built-in mocking capabilities of the GrailsUnitTestCase and ControllerUnitTestCase classes included with Grails.
In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis shows you how to create your own Grails plug-in. Once you see how effortless it is to create a plug-in, you'll understand why more than 250 Grails plug-ins are available now, with new ones being added all the time.
In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis introduces you to the world of Grails plug-ins. Adding whole areas of new functionality to your applications couldn't be easier. You'll learn how plug-ins do their magic, and you'll use a plug-in to implement powerful search capabilities in the Blogito application.
In this Mastering Grails installment, Scott Davis shows you how to upload files to your Grails application and set up an Atom syndication feed. With these last pieces in place, Blogito becomes a full-fledged blog server.
Grails provides all the basic building blocks you need to put together a secure Web application, ranging from a simple login infrastructure to role-based authorization, and in this installment of Mastering Grails, Scott Davis gives you a hands-on lesson in securing your Grails application. You'll also learn about some plug-ins that can help you extend your applications' security capabilities in new directions.
In this installment of Mastering Grails, Scott Davis shows you how to customize the standard Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that Grails generates for Web pages. Moving from primary keys to descriptive titles in URIs gives users a more memorable and more meaningful path to the resources that they seek.
In this installment of Mastering Grails, Scott Davis demonstrates how to make drastic changes to the look and feel of a Grails application using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), templates, tag libraries (TagLibs), and more.
In this installment of Mastering Grails, series author Scott Davis puts to rest any qualms about Grails' readiness for the enterprise. You'll see how to use Grails with enterprise-caliber libraries including the Java Management Extensions (JMX), Spring, and log4j.
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) are staples of Web 2.0 development. In this installment of the Mastering Grails series, author Scott Davis demonstrates the native JSON and Ajax capabilities baked into the Web framework.
Grails makes it easy to ensure that your Web applications start out bug free and stay that way. As a bonus, you can leverage your test code to produce a rich set of executable documentation that is always up-to-date. This month, Grails guru Scott Davis shows you the Grails testing ropes.
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The GIS for Web Developers course taught by Scott Davis was the best training experience I've had in my professional career. The instructor thoroughly understood the subject matter, and could present and articulate the material making it easy to understand.
— Adam J. Iezzi, Systems Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton