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Figure 10.8. Displaying the castles on a Google Map. The
Castle
domain classes have their latitude and longitude
coordinates set by the
GeocoderService
. The Google Visualization plugin generates the proper JavaScript to
add them to a Google Map.
Grails is a large, powerful framework with lots of features, and the features it lacks are
provided with plugins. If you spend any time with Groovy, it's worth a look whenever you
have to build web applications.
Lessons learned (Grails)
1. Grails is a convention-over-configuration framework for producing web applica-
tions.
2. Grails domain classes are managed by Hibernate and mapped to database tables.
