* Welcome Dave Klein

[Ankit Garg]

This week, we're delighted to have Dave Klein helping to answer questions about the new book Grails: A Quick Start Guide. See the summary of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, November 10th 2009 and will end on Friday, November 14th 2009.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Pragmatic.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.

[Raghavan Muthu]

Welcome Dave Klien to Java Ranch Book Promo

Hope you would have a good time here and answer our queries.

[Vijitha Kumara]

Welcome to JavaRanch, Dave Klein

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Welcome Dave!

[Kenneth A. Kousen]

Hi Dave! I think your book is fantastic. I guess I don't have a question. I just really like the book.

Ken

[Len Ocin]

What is Grail? (Do I get a book for not knowing? )

[Max Galushka]

Hello Dave,

I have been working with many web application frameworks (and with Grails as well), but in Grails I couldn't find the answer how to integrate my own Java libraries (that possibly use Hibernate and spring themselves) into Grails/Groovy project?

Also is there any possibility to separate presentation logic from business logic (just add some API calls in web layer to business)?

Thanks, for the answers and welcome!

[mikey strauss]

Welcome Dave Klein
i am not an expert in web development i am a beginner really ,do you think learning grails
would be good /bad or me and is the book suitable for someone like me?
thanks...

[Oliver Hoch]

Hi Dave,
in a plugin I'd like to extract constants (e.g. folder and file names) into a (groovy) class for reuse in install, uninstall and other scripts.
How can I use such a class in my gant scripts?
Oliver

[Akshay Manchanda]

Hi Dave,
The book seems really interesting. I want to know what were your strategies to gather the interest of the reader?

All the best

[Ankit Garg]

Len Ocin wrote:What is Grail? (Do I get a book for not knowing? )

As I said earlier, "Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing". So if you want to win the book then start a new topic for your meaningful questions...

[Matthew Taylor]

Hooray for Dave Klein! (I know that guy!!)

[Dave Klein]

Thanks everybody! This should be a fun week.

There were some good questions in this welcome thread. I hope those will be reposted as new topics, but if not, I'll try to come back here and answer them.

Dave