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4.0 out of 5 stars
Guys. It's a FirstPress intro book. Seriously., July 3, 2009
This review is from: Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL (Paperback)
The other reviewers are complaining there's not much here. I admit I picked it up in eBook format hoping to get a detailed, deep dive into the very bowels of Grails persistence. This isn't that book.
What I did find is that it's ideal for someone new to Grails, to understand all of the options available to you for persistence-level work. Everything from the basics of domain classes through Hibernate-land all the way down to raw SQL. It's a short survey work - which I should have expected given that it's by FirstPress. Give it to the new Grails developers on your project - this is stuff they NEED to know and they can read it in a couple of hours.
I got a second copy for our DBA. This is her first foray above the database level into helping with the application programming level. It's helping her understand where we developers are coming from, and to give us better advice.
Recommended as a starter work to understand your options. But to go deeper into Grails or Hibernate, you'll want an additional book. I recommend Grails in Action and Java Persistence with Hibernate.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good reference for Grails persistence, May 6, 2009
This review is from: Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL (Paperback)
This is a good, quick guide to persistence in Grails. It follows a good pattern: Here's some short code, here's an explanation, and here's an integration test to cover the details. At times, this style is too quick, sketching over details and leaving me without a complete understanding.
The book doesn't talk about setting up your Grails environment. It's clearly aimed at people who already know how to use Grails but want a more thorough understanding of how to use their domain objects. All of this information is online, of course, but as the author points out a couple of times, the official documentation has always contained some inaccuracies. So this book is a good supplement. Is it a good read? Not really. It doesn't use an example project. It doesn't tell you how to built a better database. It assumes you know what you want to do and tells you how to do it. I mean that in the best possible way: Despite the popularity of Grails, info on best practices remains hard to find, and the source code in this book is very sleek, well-tested and Grails-y.
Whereas every Grails developer absolutely must have The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition, which covers GORM pretty well, this book is good for reference. Not, however, in its slim, oversized-text print edition, which, as a FirstPress book, doesn't even have an index. I'd recommend it as an eBook only.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Handy Reference for GORM, May 7, 2009
This review is from: Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL (Paperback)
At first I was surprised that it was a total of 156 pages (I was pleased that I didn't have to work my way through yet another 700 page book).
As the title indicates this is focused on one of the greatest assets of Grails, GORM. When working with GORM, you really need examples and options to help you with common data query and dataset organization tasks, this book provides that.
In a nutshell, if you are working on a Grails project, this book will provide you with a concise reference with great code examples of valuable GORM features that you will refer back to.
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