Johnny's dev corner

This blog post builds on the post “Security – Authentication”. The grails part of this blog is an adaption of this guide. I found some java code to use with Google authenticator and made it work. The blog post will end with a runnable sample application. Adding fields to store authenticator secret We will need […]

In this blog post I will look into authentication. XPages has a built-in authentication mechanism. In order to enable authentication I edited the application’s ACL, removing anonymous access and adding the appropriate users / groups. Grails does not have built-in authentication. The documentation chapter on Authentication describes how to implement your own authentication using interceptors, […]

In this blog post I will look into my development environment. IDE When starting out with Grails development I was already used to the Eclipse IDE, so naturally this was the starting point for me. Eclipse I did a preliminary test GGTS which worked right out of the box. Unfortunately GGTS is made for Grails […]

Grails database access is provided through GORM which implements connections to many different database platforms. The main implementation of is for Hiberate ORM which uses JDBC to connect to a relational database. There are also GORM implementations for MongoDB, Neo4j, Cassandra and REST. Given support for JDBC and the special implementations you have a rich […]

The idea for this blog came from the documentation and answers out there regarding Grails as a platform – or to be more precise – the lack of writing about why and what the different choices brings to the table, and also which choices are there to choose from. The amount of optional and mandatory […]