Grails 2: A Quick-Start Guide

Chapter 3 Laying the Foundation

In this chapter, we’ll implement the first three features on the TekDays feature list. We’ll add the ability to create, view, and modify new technical conferences (or code camps or what have you). We will refer to all of these as events. These events are the core of our application. Each event that is created here has the potential to become an actual gathering of dozens, if not hundreds, of developers, designers, architects, and maybe even project managers, all learning, sharing, and generally advancing our craft.

The three features that we’ll be implementing are very closely related; they’re so close, in fact, that we will be implementing them all at once! Grails dynamically adds the ability to create, read, ...