This 4-day intensive training covers both Groovy and Grails in great detail. After a thorough introduction to the technology, students are taken through many advanced aspects of both the Groovy programming language and the Grails web application framework.

This training is designed to quickly move teams beyond the basics and on to the most powerful aspects of both Groovy and Grails. Students should expect intensive, hands-on interactive lab work.

This Groovy & Grails training is the only official Grails.org and Groovy.codehaus.org training in the world and is taught by real Groovy & Grails experts from Skills Matter's community!

At the end of the training, you should gain an understanding of the Groovy programming language and the associated framework Grails, and you should be able to do the following:

• Write programs using Groovy
• Integrate with Java
• Add dynamic functionality using Groovy
• Use Grails for Web development and persistence
• Ensure reliable Grails applications through unit and integration testing
• Have a sound knowledge of all the core concepts from the Web to the persistence layer
• Move beyond the basic scaffolding mechanisms to build robust applications
• Understand key development best practices that enable the development of higher quality code

Day 1 - The Groovy Language

• Introduction to Groovy
• Installation and Tools
• Groovy Beans
• Language Fundamentals
• Collections and Closures
• Miscellaneous APIs, Java Interoperability

Day 2 - Advanced Groovy

• Groovy Metaprogramming
• Groovy Annotations and AST
• Building DSLs with Groovy
• Groovy Testing

Day 3 - Developing Enterprise Applications with Grails

• Introduction to Grails
• Installation and Grails Quick Start
• GORM basics
• Advanced GORM � Advanced modeling and Querying
• Testing Grails components

Day 4 - Controllers, Views, Services and Plug-ins

• Grails Controllers
• GSP, Tag Libraries, and GSP Templates
• Form Handling and AJAX processing
• Grails services and transactions
• Grails Plug-ins