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The moment you start doing real work with Ajax you will find that multiple page elements have to be updated from a single action.

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Posted by gavingc on March 12, 2011 at 15:47 under Grails, Grails-1.2.
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Out the box Grails provides two ways to display messages to the user.

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Posted by gavingc on August 22, 2010 at 08:23 under Grails, Grails-1.1.1, Grails-1.2.
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JaspeReports is heralded as a great and powerful reporting engine, add to that iReport and a Grails Plugin and we’re all set to go. But beware the learning curve!
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Posted by gavingc on May 20, 2010 at 10:06 under Grails, Grails-1.2.
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As of Grails-1.2.2 we have a better way to specify JVM options just for Grails!
So now that headless option won’t prevent groovyConsole from starting, yay!
Note: this is for firing Grails up from the command line, not deployment.
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Posted by gavingc on March 26, 2010 at 21:38 under Grails, Grails-1.2, JavaScript.
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Logging is a better way to debug and provide messages than slapping println statements around. Here is an example of a grails config for log4j. This will also place the log file in with the Tomcat logs when you deploy.

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Posted by gavingc on December 17, 2009 at 13:58 under Grails, Grails-1.1.1, Grails-1.2.
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