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Griffon in Action
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Griffon in Action

by Andres Almiray, Danno Ferrin, Jim Shingler
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 2m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Griffon in Action

Chapter 13. Griffon in front, Grails in the back

 

This chapter covers
  • Building a Grails server application
  • Building a Griffon UI
  • Connecting Grails and Griffon via REST

 

It’s hard to find a web developer these days who hasn’t come across an Ajax- or RIA-powered website. These technologies have become so ubiquitous that we can’t go back to the times when Web 2.0 didn’t exist. There are myriad options for building a web application that has Ajax built in or that presents a rich interface, in both the frontend and backend tiers. Grails happens to be one of the front runners when dealing with the JVM.

We’ve mentioned Grails a few times already in this book. If you’re a developer working on web applications and you haven’t given Grails a try, ...

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