I startet trying Grails by reading the Quick Start Tutorial. That’s nice to get a very trivial application running, but it was not enoough for me. So I read across the other tutorials, and tried some, but they did not really satisfy me.

So after some search I found one of those nice free e-books from InfoQ, one of my favorite sources for technical news, presentations, interviews, articles and tutorials about Java & Co. They published the book “Getting Started with Grails”, which can be downloaded as e-book for free or purchased as print version. There is also a presentation about the content of the book (one hour).

The book is written in tutorial style or “learning by example” as called by the author. For me it is just the tutorial I was looking for. Great!