In the first post on this topic we looked at a standard Grails application and how to add the SmartGWT plugin to it. In this post we’re going to explore some more features of the plugin. Customising the scaffolded UI If you run the sample app at the end of the last post and filter on Film you’ll notice that...

We are pleased to announce a preview version of our plugin for Grails developers. Grails includes an ORM layer (GORM) built on top of Hibernate and the principal feature of this plugin is to provide a seamless integration with it. The plugin also assists with creating UI elements and providing SmartClient-enhanced scaffolding. This articles serves as a starting point for...

Like any web application, SmartClient and Smart GWT applications can be made offline  capable using an HTML5 manifest file to describe all the static resources required by the application.  If you’re not familiar with creating an HTML manifest file, you can learn more about it by reading through this tutorial: http://www.sitepoint.com/offline-web-application-tutorial/ Once you’ve got a manifest for static resources, the...