Agile Web Development with

Groovy & Grails

Groovy & Grails
Groovy
Groovy

Why?

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Groovy

Java Jobs
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Groovy

Java EE Jobs
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Groovy

Ruby On Rails Jobs

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Groovy

JSR 241

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Groovy

„Java-stylish with a Ruby-esque feeling“

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Groovy

 „Groovy is not a replacement for the Java programming

language; it‘s a complement to that language“
Richard Monson-Haefel, award winning author & technical analyst

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Groovy

GroovyBeans
class GroovyBean {
String name
}

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Groovy

Autoboxing
def b = new GroovyBean()
b.name = “groovy bean“

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Groovy

Duck Typing
 „When I see a bird that walks like a
duck and swims like a duck and
quacks like a duck, I call that bird a
duck.“
Poem by James Whitcomb Riley

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Groovy

Expressiveness

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Groovy

Java:
java.net.URLEncoder.encode(“a b“);

Groovy:
URLEncoder.encode ‘a b‘

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Groovy

GStrings

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Groovy

def name = “world“

def message = “Hello ${name}“

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Groovy

def text = “““

Ein längerer String
mit Zeilenumbrüchen
“““

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Groovy

Native Lists, Maps, Regex

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Groovy

Lists
def aList = []

def myList = [22,55,33]

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Groovy

Maps
def emptyMap = [:]

def myMap = [“name“: “Max“,

“age“ : “33“ ]

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Groovy

Maps
myMap.name == “Max“

myMap[“age“] == “33“

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Groovy

Regular Expressions
“cheesecheese“ =~ “cheese“
“cheesecheese“ =~ /cheese/

“potatoe“ ==~ /potatoe?/

“potato“ ==~ /potatoe?/

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Groovy

Loops
for (int i=0;i<6;i++) {}

def list = [1, 2, 3]

for (i in list) {}

for (i in 0..9) {}

10.times {}

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Groovy

Closures
def myClosure = {
/* do something */
}

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Groovy

[3,1,2].each {
print “value:“+it
}

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Groovy

Builders
def xml = new groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder()
xml.authors {
author(name:‘Stephen King‘) {
book(title:‘The Shining‘)
book(title:‘The Stand‘)
}
author(name:‘James Patterson‘) {
book(title:‘Along Came a Spider‘)
}
}

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Builders
<authors>
<author name=“Stephen King“>
<book title=“The Shining“ />
<book title=“The Stand“ />
</author>
<author name=“James Patterson“>
<book title=“Along Came a Spider“ />
<author>
<authors>

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Groovy

The Groovy Truth

if (myString != null && myString.length() > 0) {
myMethod(myString);
}

if (myString) myMethod(myString)

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 Groovy

Save Dereferencing
Long id=null;
if (session.getAttribute(“user“) != null) {
id = ((User) session.getAttribute(“user“)).getId();
}

def id = session.user?.id

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Groovy

Meta Class Concept

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Groovy

IDE Integration

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Groovy

Domain Specific Language

(DSL)

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Groovy

Java:
public class RecursiveFileReading {

public static void main(String[] args) {

printAllFiles(new File("."));
}

public static final void printAllFiles(File root) {

File[] allChildren = root.listFiles();
for (File child : allChildren) {
if (child.isDirectory()) {
RecursiveFileReading.printAllFiles(child);
}
else {
System.out.println(child.toString());
}
}
}
}

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Groovy

Groovy:
groovy -e “new File(‘.‘).eachFileRecurse { println it }“

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Groovy

 „There is a value for learning Groovy for its own sake. It

will open your mind...“

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Grails
Grails

Rapid Application Develoment

(RAD)

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Grails

Full Stack Framework

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Grails

Convention Over Configuration

(CoC)

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Grails

RESTfull
Representational State Transfer

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Grails

GET

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Grails

POST

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Grails

PUT

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Grails

DELETE

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Grails

HEAD

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Grails

OPTIONS

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Grails

RESTfull
http://localhost:8080/application/user/profile/123

Controller Action ID

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Grails

DRY Paradigm
(Don‘t Repeat Yourself)

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Grails

 Leverages existing hardware

 Leverages existing Java/Framework knowledge

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Grails

Components

Grails

Java EE

Java Language JDK

Java Virtual Machine

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Grails

UI, AJAX & RIA Frameworks

YUI GWT

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Grails

Plugin API
 JSF
 Struts
 JMS
 ACEGI/Spring Security, JSecurity
 OpenID
 Functional Testing (Canoo WebTest)
 Apache Axis 2, XFire

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Grails

GORM
Groovy Object-Relational Mapping

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Grails

GORM

class Book {
String title
}

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Grails

GORM
class Book {String author
String title
Date releaseDate

static constraints = {
author(blank:false, size:2..30)
releaseDate(nullable: true) }
}
}
}

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Grails

GORM

def book = new Book()

book.author = “author A“
book.title = “title 1“

book.save()

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Grails

GORM
def book = new Book()

book.author = “author A“
book.title = “title 1“

if (book.save()) {
/* successfull flow */
} else {
/* error flow */
}

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Grails

(Dynamic) Finders
def macBook = Book.get(1)

def macBook = Book.findByTitle(“MacBook“)

def macBook = Book.findByTitleAndAuthor(“MacBook“, “Apple“)

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Grails

Groovy Server Pages (GSP)

<h1>Book list</h1><table> <tr>
<th>Title</th> <th>Author</th>
</tr><g:each in="${books}">
<tr>
<td>${it.title}</td>
<td>${it.author}</td>
</tr>
</g:each>
</table>

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Grails

Groovy Server Pages (GSP)

<g:if test="${name == 'fred'}">

Hello Fred!</g:if><g:else>
Hello ${name}! Do I know
you?</g:else>

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Grails

Groovy Server Pages (GSP)

<g:datePicker name="myDate" value="${new Date()}"

precision="day" years="${1930..1970}"/>

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Grails

Scaffolding
 Dynamic Scaffolding

 Static Scaffolding

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Grails

How does it look like?

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Grails

Success Stories?

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Grails

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Grails

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Grails

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Grails

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Grails

http://groovy.codehaus.org/

http://www.grails.org

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Grails

Dirk König - Groovy In Action

Manning, 2007

Graeme Keith Rocher - The Definitive Guide To Grails

Apress, 2006

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