Grails Training: Introduction to Web Application Development with Groovy and Grails

Course Number: GRO-102
GSA/Previous Course Number: 555
Duration: 4 days
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Grails Training Overview

Accelebrate's Introduction to Web Application Development with Groovy and Grails training Teaches Java developers the basics of Groovy and how to use the Grails framework to rapidly create sophisticated web applications.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/xml_html_js.htm.

Grails Training Prerequisites

All attendees should be familiar with web development in Java™, including servlets, JSPs, and database access.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This training class is 60% hands-on, 40% lecture/discussion, with the longest lecture/discussion segments lasting for 20 minutes. Students "learn by doing" with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Grails Training Materials

All attendees receive a copy of Apress's The Definitive Guide to Grails and related course materials, as well as copies of all code created during class.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Please contact us for specific setup instructions. In general, you will need:

Java SE SDK 1.5.0 or later
The latest stable release of Grails
A good integrated development environment that supports both languages, like Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, or UltraEdit
An available database, like MySQL (optional, but preferred)
Other open source software; please contact us for details

Grails Training Objectives

All attendees will:

Work with Groovy strings, closures, and collections
Develop model-view-controller web applications using Grails
Access relational databases from Grails
Build unit and functional tests for web applications
Select Grails plugins to add functionality

Grails Training Outline

Groovy Basics

Differences between Groovy and Java
POGO's vs. POJO's
Using assertions
Groovy Strings
Closures
Ranges, Lists, and Maps
Loops and conditionals
Builders

Starting a Grails Project

Project layout
Directories for model classes, controllers, and views
Data source configuration
Logging
Command line utilities
IDE integration

Building the Domain Model

Object-Relational Mapping with GORM
Optional properties
Constraints and validation
Modeling relationships
Performing CRUD operations
Dynamic queries

Scaffolding

Dynamic scaffolding
Working with the dynamic operations
Static scaffolding
Generating controllers
Generating views

A Bit More Groovy

XML processing
Groovy SQL

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

Ajax Support

Basics of Ajax
Handling events
Ajax-supporting tags

Services and Jobs

Transactions
Services and dependency injection

Adding Functionality Through Plugins

Security
User Interface improvements
Scheduling
Searching
Email
Generating RSS feeds

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