Authenticating user by his Facebook credentials

In my previous post I talked about how we can connect to Facebook from our application and get the user deatils. In this post we will discuss how we can authenticate the user based on his facebook user details. We will  use  acegi plugin of grails to allow uses our of web application to be [...]

Open Flash Chart in a Grails Application

In my Grails project we had a requirement that we needed to show graphs. Our client wanted to go for a opensource solution. We decided on the option OpenFlashChart. Grails comes up with its plugin for OpenFlashChart. With Open Flash Chart we can easily show barchart, line chart, piechart, Area charts etc. Let me explain [...]

Practicality of MetaProgramming in Grails Project

Grails is a powerful technology to build web applications very rapidly. Groovy provides so many enhancements to Java objects. Metaprogramming capability is one of them. Grails uses this Metaprogramming capability of Groovy heavily to accomplish things faster the way it does. This blog discusses the the Practicality of this Metaprogramming in the Grails projects based [...]

Why and When to use Groovy

I have just started learning Groovy few days back.The first thing that I have asked myself and searched for is ‘Why should i use groovy over java and When I can use Groovy. ?’ I am following the book ‘Programming Groovy’. The things I have understood regarding ‘Why’ part are