Posts Tagged ‘grails’
Lessons Learned: Building a simple Ad Host with Grails on the Google App Engine
In this post, I share my experiences building a simple Content Host with Grails and the Google App Engine.
Grails on The Google App Engine: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
I’ve been playing with Grails and the Google App Engine for about a month. Overall, I’ve been very happy about the experience. There seem to be a few questions and misconceptions about the app engine and Grails, both on forums, blogs and the Grails mailing list. I thought I would put together a quick summary for those looking for more information about deploying on this platform. Read the rest of this entry »
Flex on Grails: Building an image transformation tool with the Google App Engine, Flex and Grails
In this screencast, I show how to use Flex, Grails and the Google App Engine’s image service to quickly build an online image resizing and rotation tool.
- Part 1: Application introduction and walkthrough of the Flex Front End.
- Part 2: Embedding your swf into your Grails project for Deployment.
- Part 3:Introduction to the Google App Engine Image Service and the implementation of the Grails controller wrapper.
-LINKS-
- Link to the application: http://tomaslin.appspot.com/transformation/ ( right-click to view flex source )
- ObjectHandles: http://code.google.com/p/flex-object-handles/
- SpringSource Quickcast: http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/14/grails-111-released-with-google-appengine-support/
- Source for Tranformation Service:http://tomaslin.googlepages.com/TransformationController.groovy
Please send any feedback or comments to tomaslin@gmail.com
5 Reasons for Flex Developers to consider a Grails / Google App Engine Backend
Today, Grails 1.1.1. was released with support for deploying applications on the Google App Engine. Here are five reasons why I think Flex Developers will fall in love with a Grails / GAE backend. Read the rest of this entry »
Flex on Grails: An one line Groovy proxy for cross domain communication for Flex
When trying to access external websites like the Flickr API or Google domains with Flex, we often run into the dreaded #2148 Security Exception error. . In this post, I show you how easy it is to solve this using Groovy and Grails ( it’s one line ). Read the rest of this entry »
Grails for Web Developers: Building a simple CMS Engine for static web pages. ( Part 1 – building a model )
Rapid Application Development Frameworks like Rails, Django and Python provide a flexible alternative to commercial content management systems. Instead of trying to shoehorn a website into a rigid format of pages and blog posts, RAD frameworks allow you to build custom Content Management solutions using your own language.
In this post, I will show how the Grails Application Framework, which is built on top of java technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Jetty and the Groovy dynamic language, can be used to quickly convert an existing static site into one that can be managed by someone who is non-technical. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Aykroyd Wines – A site in Flex, HTML and Grails
One of the last projects I worked with Mindblossom, Dan Aykroyd Wines, has gone live on the web. The site was built using a combination of HTML and JavaScript, Grails and Flex.
You can see the site at http://www.danaykroydwines.com/
Grails and Flex — some interesting recent links
I’ve been following the integration between the Adobe Flex stack and Grails for a while, and there has been some interesting recent developments in this world. I thought I would gather them in one place so they can easily be referenced.
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Dynamic Flex Scaffolding for Grails via REST Services : Part 2 – Scaffold Generation
This is the second post about some my ‘generate a dynamic Flex scaffold for Grails’ experiment. In this post, I will talk about the way in which the UI elements are created in Flex and demonstrate the advantages and differences of using this approach. Read the rest of this entry »
Dynamic Flex Scaffolding for Grails via REST Services : Part 1: Getting the model out to Flex via REST services.
I’m building a mechanism to build dynamic CRUD scaffolding for Flex on Grails via REST services. In this post, I will outline the overall goals of this experiment, and document some of the progress I have made with serializing Grails domain classes out as XML. Read the rest of this entry »
