Who this book is for

This book is aimed at Java web developers looking for ways to speed up development of web applications on the Java platform. If you are frustrated with integrating the many different frameworks that are available for web development and want to get on with building slick web applications for your users, then this book is for you.

Grails is built on the Groovy language, but experience in Groovy is not required, as you will learn enough about Groovy to understand how to use Grails.