Using Groovy and Grails with Spring Boot
The emergence of Spring Boot has significantly improved the development of applications with Spring, allowing you to create applications faster by improving the configuration and removing repetitive tasks.
Tag: grails
Hexagonal Grails Architecture
Are you happy with the 3-tier architecture in your Grails applications? This presentation explains how to apply the Life Preserver tool to implement the Hexagonal architecture in Grails applications. With plenty of code and a sample application, it contains discussion on using plugins, messaging and the features of Groovy itself …
Grails Transactions
Properly performing multiple data updates requires a transaction, but how do we do this in Grails? Services are the best option, but there are different approaches that can be used. We’ll look at how to effectively use transactions and how to customize transaction attributes such as isolation and propagation levels.
Groovy Code From the Trenches
From the trenches of daily Groovy and Grails development of online (administrative) applications, I want to to highlight pieces of design and code that could be of use, or rather inspiration for other Grails developers. After a brief spotlight on the toolset (IntelliJ & Jenkins mostly) I’d like to do …
Building Grails Applications With Gradle
Learn how we can use the Gradle build tool to build and wrangle Grails applications. Gradle is an open source build tool, based on the Groovy programming language. It is very different from existing tools like Ant and Maven in that it provides an extremely powerful capability to develop build …
Grails Plugin Best Practices
Grails plugins are a great way to reuse and share common code, and to modularize an application. In this talk we’ll look at the general process for creating a plugin. I addition, we’ll look at the different types of plugins, how to deploy and release, and options for various testing …