The definitive guide to grails: Second edition

The Definitive Guide to Grails: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-618

  Rocher, Graeme ^a   Brown, Jeff ^b  

^a Grails Development   (United States)

^b SpringSource ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84892193647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-0871-6     Document Type: Book

References (23)

1. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern is a common pattern found in many web frameworks designed to separate user interface and business logic. See Wikipedia, "Model-view-controller", http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/ Model-view-controller, 2003.
2. Code coverage is a measure used in software testing. It describes the degree to which the source code of a program has been tested.
3. Scott W. Ambler, "The Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch", http://www.agiledata.org/essays/impedanceMismatch.html, 2006.
4. Wikipedia, "Optimistic concurrency control", http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic-concurrency-control.
5. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html for definitions of all the HTTP request methods.
6. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html for definitions of all the HTTP response codes.
7. See http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/index.html for complete documentation of the MessageSource interface and related classes.
8. You can find the full documentation for the TransactionStatus interface at http://static. springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/.
9. You can find more information about JMX at http://java.sun. com/javase/technologies/core/mntr-mgmt/javamanagement/.
10. A fluent API is often referred to as method chaining because it involves writing methods that return objects in a manner so multiple methods can be chained in a sequence. See http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/FluentInterface. html for a more complete definition.
11. REST is a broad subject, the full details of which are beyond the scope of this book, but we recommend you read Roy Fielding's original dissertation on the subject at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm.
12. Atom refers to a pair of related standards, the Atom Syndication Format and Atom Publishing Protocol (APP); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom- (standard).
13. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard for describing content types; see http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME.
14. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a wireless communication standard to enable Internet access on mobile devices; see http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless-Application-Protocol.
15. Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) is an acronym used in programming circles to describe the philosophy of avoiding repetition at all costs.
16. There is an excellent introductory article on Message-Driven POJOs on the SpringSource Team blog at http://blog.springsource.com/2006/08/11/message- driven-pojos/.
17. Some recent Spring books published by Apress include Pro Spring 2.5 by Jan Machacek et al. (Apress, 2008), Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach by Gary Mak (Apress, 2008), and Pro Java EE Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Implementing Java EE Patterns with the Spring Framework by Dhrubojyoti Kayal (Apress, 2008).
18. In software engineering jargon, a green field project is one that is free of any constraints imposed by prior work. See http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/ Greenfield-project.
19. Object-relational mismatch is a term used to describe the technical difficulties in mapping an objectoriented-programming language onto a relational database system; see http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-Relational-impedance- mismatch.
20. Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine by Mehran Habibi (Apress, 2004) is an excellent book that covers the intricacies of regular expressions on the Java platform.
21. Many people feel now is the time for Java to introduce closure support, and this may happen in the future. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/closure.html for information on why Java doesn't currently support closures.
22. Groovy in Action by Dierk Koenig et al. (Greenwich, CT: Manning Publications, 2007)
23. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley, 1995)