Spring Boot in Action

Chapter 6. Applying Grails in Spring Boot

This chapter covers

• Persisting data with GORM
• Defining GSP views
• An introduction to Grails 3 and Spring Boot

When I was growing up, there was a series of television advertisements involving two people, one enjoying a chocolate bar and another eating peanut butter out of a jar. By way of some sort of comedic mishap, the two would collide, resulting in the peanut butter and chocolate getting mixed.

One would proclaim, “You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!” The other would respond, “You got peanut butter on my chocolate!”

After initially being angry with their circumstances, the two would conclude that the combination of peanut butter and chocolate is a good thing. Then a voice-over would ...