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Grails Training: Web Application Development with Groovy and Grails

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Course Number: GRO-102
Duration: 5 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?action=course&page=GRA101.

Grails Training Prerequisites

All attendees should be familiar with Java™, C#, or a similar object-oriented programming language and be fluent in HTML.

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 2 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:

  • JDK 1.6 or late
  • The latest stable release of Grails
  • A powerful IDE that supports Groovy and Grails, such as SpringSource's Groovy/Grails Tool Suite or IntelliJ IDEA
  • Related free software and lab files; please contact us for detailed specifications

Grails Training Objectives

All attendees will learn to:

  • Understand Groovy's relationship to Java
  • Use the Groovy tools
  • Master the fundamentals of writing Groovy code
  • Work with Groovy strings, closures, and collections
  • See how conditionals, loops, and other control structures differ in Groovy versus Java and other languages
  • Produce and parse JSON and XML data
  • Access relational databases from Groovy
  • Understand the fundamentals of Grails and how it integrates with Spring, Hibernate, and other frameworks
  • Use domain classes and understand domain class relationships
  • Understand MVC architecture and best practices for implementing it in Grails applications
  • Build Groovy Server Pages
  • Write and use Grails services
  • Deploy a Grails application

Grails Training Outline

  • Introduction
    • Relationship to Java, Similarities, Differences
    • Groovy Setup, Environment, Documentation
    • Groovy JDK, Groovy API
    • Groovy Tools - groovy, groovyc, groovysh, groovyConsole
    • Writing and Executing Groovy Scripts
  • Language Basics and Data Types
    • Everything Is an Object
    • Numbers
    • Optional Typing, def
    • Standard Operators, Operator Overriding
    • Java Strings and Groovy Strings
    • Methods in Groovy
    • Groovy Truth
    • Assertions in Groovy
    • Regular Expressions
  • Collections
    • Collections, Lists, and Sets
    • Working with Collections – Adding/Removing Elements, Indexes
    • Ranges
    • Simple Operations on Collections
    • Maps
    • Working with Maps – Adding/Removing Entries
  • Closures
    • Basics
    • Writing and Calling Closures, Closures as Arguments to Methods
    • Iterating over Collections – for-in Loop, each(), eachWithIndex()
    • Advanced Operations on Collections
  • Conditionals and Loops
    • Groovy Truth Revisited
    • if and if-else
    • Enhanced switch
    • Elvis Operator
    • Safe De-reference Operator
  • Classes
    • Automatic Imports
    • Properties and Fields – POGOs vs. POJOs, GroovyBeans
    • Methods
    • Constructors
    • Exceptions
    • Dynamic Method Invocation and Duck Typing
    • AST Transformations Overview
  • Builders and Parsers
    • How They Work via Metaprogramming
    • Generating XML with MarkupBuilder
    • Generating JSON with JsonBuilder
    • Processing XML with XmlSlurper
  • Database Access
    • Issues with JDBC
    • The Sql Class
    • Executing Queries
    • Executing Updates
    • Basic ORM
  • Grails Overview and Supporting Frameworks
    • MVC – Overview of Domain Classes, Controllers, GSPs, Services
    • Hibernate
    • Spring
    • Convention over Configuration
    • Grails Toolset – the grails Commands
    • Grails Application Structure
    • Dynamic Scaffolding
  • Domain Classes
    • Configuring a DataSource, dev/test/prod Environments
    • Properties, id, version, dateCreated, lastUpdated
    • Constraints and Validation, Unit Testing of Validation Constraints
    • Inserting and Retrieving Domain Objects
    • Updating Domain Objects
    • Integration Testing
  • Domain Class Relationships
    • One-to-Many
    • Unidirectional vs. Bidirectional Relationships
    • Transitive Persistence
    • Many-to-Many
    • Sorting
    • Lazy and Eager Fetching of Relationships, Batch Fetching
  • Queries
    • Dynamic Finders
    • HQL, Aggregate Functions, Tuple Queries, Explicit and Implicit Joins
    • Query Parameters for Sorting, Fetching, etc.
  • Legacy Schemas
    • Mapping Domain Classes onto Existing Tables
    • Mapping Relationships
    • Dynamic Scaffolding (revisited), Static Scaffolding
  • Controllers
    • URL Mappings
    • Writing Actions
    • Role of SpringMVC DispatcherServlet
    • Alternative Output Formats: Returning Data in XML and JSON Format
    • Sharing Data between Components: scopes – request, flash, session, application
    • Forward vs. Redirect
  • Groovy Server Pages
    • Basics, MVC (revisited), Sharing Data between Components (revisited)
    • Rendering Data and Links
    • Rendering Errors
    • Externalized Messages and Internationalization (I18N)
  • Services
    • Role of Services
    • Writing Services
    • Service Scope and Lifecycle
    • Injection into Controllers and Unit/Integration Tests
  • Deployment
    • Java EE Deployment Overview
    • Exporting Grails Application into WAR File, Customizing/Deploying the WAR
    • Using Server-Configured DataSources
    • Exporting Generated Schema (in Domain-Driven Development)
  • Conclusion
 

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