thejavajar

I recently took the time to install and work with the Grails plugin, GrailsUI. It provides a great tag library that is based on YUI and the Bubbling library, a YUI extension. I really like the components that are available and if you need that rich Ajax feel in your Grails application, this is a low impedance path to get things done. So, in order to get your Grails project up and running with GrailsUI, you need to install all 3 plugins in this order:

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> grails install-plugin yui
> grails install-plugin bubbling
> grails install-plugin grails-ui
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At first, I just started adding some of the static components to the index.gsp page and then moved on to wiring the rich Ajax components to controllers. If you follow the code snippets on the GrailsUI plugin page or if you check out the guiDemo Grails project, you should have very little problem understanding the core components and their attributes. Grails with GrailsUI can get your next Web application up and running with a very popular UI technology and the learning curve is not too steep if you first check out the guiDemo on the GrailsUI plugin page.