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Chapter 10. Building and testing web applications
This chapter covers
• Groovy servlets and
ServletCategory
• Groovlets
• Unit and integration testing of web apps
• The Groovy killer app, Grails
While Java on the desktop has its adherents, Java found a true home on the server side.
Java's growth and adoption in the early days neatly follow that of the web itself. It's a rare
Java developer who hasn't at least worked on a web application.
In this chapter I'm going to look at modern web application development and where Groovy
can make the process simpler and easier. Sometimes Groovy just simplifies the code. Other
times it provides helpful testing tools, like Gradle and HTTPBuilder. Finally, there's the
most famous framework in the Groovy ecosystem, Grails. I'll review them all and try to
place them in the overall context of web applications.
Figure 10.1
is a guide to the technologies discussed in this chapter.
