Grails 1.1 Web Application Development -- Table of Contents -- Grails 1.1 Web Application Development -- Credits -- About the author -- Acknowledgement -- About the reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Grails -- Why Grails? -- Less configuration -- Faster setup -- Shorter develop/test cycle -- Consistent development environment -- Domain-specific language for web development -- Fewer dependencies -- Installing Grails -- Build a team communication portal -- Summary -- 2. Managing Users with Scaffolding -- What is scaffolding? -- Create the domain classes -- Create the User domain class -- Create the Role domain class -- Creating controllers to enable scaffolding -- Control through constraints -- Meeting the relations -- Relating roles and users -- Ordering fields through constraints -- Bootstrapping demo data -- Summary -- 3. Posting Messages -- Message domain class -- Rendering a form -- Message controller -- Groovy Server Pages -- Create message view -- Grails layouts -- Show the form -- Handling user input -- Binding the request to the domain -- Validate and save -- Flash scope -- Redirect -- Render validation errors -- Feedback to the user -- Create a home page -- HomeController -- List all messages -- Home page view -- Styles and navigation -- Set the default page -- Update the layout -- Tidying up -- HTML encoding -- Overriding validation error messages -- Summary -- 4. Introduction to Groovy -- What is Groovy? -- Object-Oriented -- Dynamic -- Functional -- Loosely typed and strongly typed -- Why Groovy? -- Familiar syntax -- Direct integration with Java -- Running Groovy -- Installing Groovy -- Groovy shell.

Groovy console -- Execute Groovy scripts -- Groovy classes and scripts -- Groovy features -- Semicolons -- Strings -- Numbers -- Lists -- Maps -- Ranges -- Truth and equality -- Closures -- Plain old Groovy objects -- Metaprogramming -- Adding dynamic behavior -- The great pretender -- Builders -- Summary -- 5. Authentication with JSecurity Plug-in -- Where to find plug-ins -- Installing a plug-in -- Configuring JSecurity plug-in -- How does JSecurity work? -- More about realms -- Create a simple realm -- Implement authenticate -- Dynamic finders -- Implement hasRole -- Install the authentication controller -- The authentication filter -- Password encryption -- Add the missing pieces -- Encryption of users' passwords -- Permission denied page -- Sign out link -- JSecurity tags -- Who posted that? -- UserService -- Relate messages to users -- Making it happen -- Showing the user -- Hibernate lazy loading -- Eager load users -- Summary -- 6. Testing -- Writing unit tests -- Why we write unit tests -- Confidence in code -- Improve design -- Developer productivity -- Document code -- How to write unit tests -- Test discreet units of code -- Trust your libraries -- Test your production code -- Descriptive test names -- Test one thing at a time -- JUnit refresher -- SetUp and TearDown -- Asserting expectations -- Unit tests in Grails -- Groovy test extensions -- Create a grails test -- Running our tests -- Grails testing plug-in -- Testing Metacontroller -- Testing validation -- Limitations of Grails in unit tests -- Integration testing -- External dependencies -- Repeatable tests -- Integration tests in Grails -- BootStrap for environments -- Functional testing -- Environment setup -- Repeatable tests -- Test performance -- Fragility of tests -- Making tests understandable -- Functional testing In Grails -- Benefits of functional testing in Grails.

Installing the functional testing plug-in -- Testing guidance -- Summary -- 7. File Sharing -- File domain object -- FileController -- File Upload GSP -- Saving the file -- Grails file upload -- The save action -- Validation messages -- Viewing files -- Modeling for efficiency -- Downloading files -- Summary -- 8. More GORM and Criteria -- More GORM relationships -- Sort order of relationships -- Update validation messages -- Querying with criteria -- Comparing criteria and dynamic finders -- Using logical operators -- Querying across relationships -- Specifying a fetch mode for relationships -- Criteria reference -- Logical criteria -- Setting criteria properties -- Updating FileController -- Updating the create file view -- Handling save -- Render file versions -- Fix file download -- Summary -- 9. Services -- Introducing services -- Dependency injection -- Service scope -- Implementing FileService -- Summary -- 10. Managing Content through Tagging -- Add basic tagging -- Tagging domain model -- The Tag class -- The Tagger class -- Tagging a message -- Tagging a file -- GORM inheritance -- Table-per-hierarchy -- Table-per-subclass -- Taggable superclass -- Polymorphic queries -- Exposing tagging to the users -- Add the Tags input field -- Add multiple tags to Taggable -- Saving the users tags -- Displaying tags -- Customize the home page -- Introducing templates -- Passing data to a template -- Render a map -- Render an object -- Render a collection -- Template namespace -- Create the message and file templates -- User tags -- User to tag relationship -- User ProfileController -- The myTags form -- Personalizing the home page -- Content service -- Update the HomeController -- Update the home page -- All Messages and Files -- Summary -- 11. AJAX and RIA Frameworks -- Edit tags inline -- The remoteLink tag -- The formRemote tag -- Taggable controller.

Tag views -- Tagging domain changes -- Include the Prototype library -- Try it out -- Auto-complete tags -- Installing the RichUI -- Implement the auto-complete -- Suggest tags action -- RichUI autoComplete widget -- Introducing tag clouds -- RichUI tag cloud component -- Fetch the tag cloud map -- Filter by tags -- Rendering the tag cloud -- Summary -- 12. Searching, RSS, and REST Services -- Searching -- Make our objects searchable -- Integrate searching -- Site-wide search -- Create the search controller -- View the search results -- Update the templates -- Users aren't searchable -- More searching -- RSS -- A note about builders -- Create the RSS feed -- Remove authorization check -- REST services -- REST overview -- URL mapping -- Mapping to variables -- Mapping to HTTP response codes -- Mapping to HTTP methods -- REST service mappings -- Mapping to wildcards -- Applying constraints -- Our Message API mapping -- Implementing the RESTful controller -- Retrieving messages -- Creating new messages -- Authentication for REST API -- A test script -- Summary -- 13. Build your own Plug-in -- The tagger plug-in -- Extract the tagging code -- Accessing plug-in templates through Tag Libraries -- Calling tags from controllers -- Current limitations -- Packaging a plug-in -- Using plug-in events -- Grails plug-in lifecycle events -- doWithSpring -- doWithWebDescriptor -- doWithApplicationContext -- doWithDynamicMethods -- onChange and onConfigChange -- Inspecting Grails artifacts -- The GrailsApplication class -- Find Taggable domain classes -- Re-modeling tag relationships -- Adding Taggable behavior -- Groovy MetaClass -- Getting the home page working -- Items of Interest -- Create messages and files -- Update tags -- List messages and files -- RSS -- Summary -- 14. Deployment and the Real World -- Set up the environment -- Install MySQL -- Install Tomcat.

Configure Grails -- Set up the DataSource -- DataSource configuration -- Environmentally aware -- Database management -- Update your DB configuration -- Control the bootstrap -- Package the WAR file -- Deploy -- Hosting options -- Next steps -- Java Hibernate classes with GORM -- Integrating with other presentation frameworks -- Data migration -- Summary -- Index.