RAD Web Development with Open Source Tool (Online Seminar)

Undecided about what technology to use for Web development? Discover the Grails open-source framework that provides rapid application development for Web applications. This presentation will show you how to generate a maintenance application for legacy IBM i files in 5 minutes. You will see how Grails is built on top of the best-of-breed Java frameworks.

The seminar describes how to program Grails with the intuitive JVM language called Groovy. You will also see how to use Eclipse, WDSc, or RDi SOA as your IDE. Finally, the seminar also describes how to deploy Grails to any Web application server (such as WebSphere or Tomcat) on your favorite platform.

After completing this seminar, you should be able to:

Identify the steps required to install Grails

Use Grails to generate a maintenance application for legacy IBM i files

Describe the advantages of Grails in producing Web applications

Describe how Grails relates to other frameworks, such as Spring and Hibernate, and to Java

Compare Groovy Server Pages with JSPs and JSFs

Use Eclipse, WDSc, or RDi SOA to develop Grails applications

Deploy a Grails application

Don Denoncourt is a Java, Linux, and IBM i consultant and trainer. He is also the author of Java Application Strategies for iSeries and AS/400 (Midrange Computing, 2001) and Understanding Web Hosting on Linux (MC Press, 2002), and is the editor of Java at Work (MC Press, 2001).