Last week I attended a groovy & grails training by SpringSource. My first introduction into grails is about 2 years a go. I attended a talk at the spring experience. Back than I liked it, tried it, but did not really use it. By now a lot has changed, most of all very good tool integration by intellij. Last week I had the change to go to a training, now I am motivated to start using grails more often.
This post I will talk you through a grails application I have created for a project of mine. I also take you through some of the things I learned last week. Finally I’ll show you that you can create a google app engine application using grails. There are ways to create grails applications, I’ll show you how to do it using the latest intellij 9 beta release.
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There are a lot of questions about serving static files in the development edition of google app engine. There are also a few answers, but none of them gave me a clear solution. Therefore I decided to look for one myself. In the end I have created a sub-optimal solution that works for me. So maybe it can work for you as well.
When attending the JAOO in Denmark, I was amazed by the easy setup of google application engine. There is a good step by step guide to creating a hello world application. It would be silly to recreate that guide here. Therefore this post takes a different approach. I’ll explain what kind of steps you need to take between downloading the SDK and looking at your application online. I’ll also talk about my experiences in getting a somewhat more difficult application running, the actual integration with google docs. How to get a list of all of your documents on the screen?