Morph Labs on Grails
Inspired by Rails, Grails, a clean and powerful Web development framework, is designed to be a high-productivity framework by following the “coding by convention” paradigm. If building an application using Grails is fast, deployment and delivery shouldn’t be any different.
By combining people, process automation, and technology, Morph Labs can provide Grails developers with a complete and managed hosting environment for their applications. Morph AppSpace, a hosting environment for single applications, and Morph AppCloud, a cloud hosting platform for multiple applications, empower Web developers and businesses to deliver their applications on an on-demand and enterprise-quality environment at a fraction of the cost of building one. Learn More.
Check out the resources below on how you can get started with Grails.
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Introducing Morph AppCloud!
Officially launched during the Web 2.0 Expo held in New York City, Morph AppCloud enables businesses to have their own private Web application platform that’s capable of running dozens of Web applications simultaneously at a fraction of the cost of building one. Learn more about this new disruptive technology with these resources:
Morph AppCloud Introductory Video:Learn about Morph AppCloud from Morph Labs’ CEO, David Abramowski.
Grails for Beginners
During our last month’s update, we posted a link here that discusses how you can get started with Grails fast; we learned how to create a Grails project, configure data source, and more. This month, we picked up yet another helpful article whose timing can’t be any more precise. Now that you’ve learned the basics of configuring Grails, it’s time for you to learn about checking projects into SVN.
Grails for Pros
Grails grants you the ability to quickly define dynamic codecs that you can easily call from within your Grails app. One of the most common uses of such codecs in Web applications is the creation of one-way hashed password strings. Grails makes this very easy to implement and use. First, create a new… Read full transcript here.
Other Resources
Screencasts and Quickcasts
Watch and listen to these audio and video resources to help fine-tune your Grails skills in a more exciting way.
Watch Webtest Screencast (4:00): Shows how easily you can use functional testing with Grails using Canoo Webtest.
Watch Tag Libraries Screencast (13:00): Shows you how to manage Tag Libraries.
Grails Podcasts
Here’s another set of audio resources driven by only one thing: to bring out the Grails in you.
Grails Podcast Episode 13: IDE Integration.
Grails Podcast Episode 12: Grails Console & Shell, Job Scheduling with Quartz, Interface Design.
Grails Plugins
Install these plugins to your Grails and experience a more well-rounded framework.
JBPM Plugin (Workflow): Plugin that can help make the utilization of JBPM in a grails application easier.
LDAP Plugin: Plugin that uses the Gldapo library to provide an easy to use and object-oriented interface to LDAP-enabled directories.
The Plug-in Developers Guide: Guide for creating your own plugin.