Chapter 14. Spring and transactions
In this chapter
- Introducing the Spring Framework
- Making the most of Spring
- Mastering transactions
After plumbing the depths of GORM and Hibernate, it’s time to move back up the abstraction hierarchy and look at the application infrastructure. GORM is wonderful as a database abstraction layer, and you can work some magic with controllers and GSPs, but just as a vertebrate needs a backbone to hold all its appendages together, so too does an application.
Fortunately, Grails is built around a tried and tested framework that will help you grow your application: Spring. We’ve mentioned it in passing a few times, and it tends to remain invisible if your application remains fairly simple. The trouble is, if it ...
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