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abs()
AbstractConverter
Accept
Accept-Language header
access control
  by role
  in web services
  terminology
Access Control Lists
Acegi Security.
    See plugins, Spring Security.
ACL.
    See Access Control Lists.
actions
  and withFormat
  in REST mappings
  passing data between
Active Directory
ActiveMQ, 2^nd
  installing
ActiveMQ console, 2^nd
ActiveMQConnectionFactory
addPost action
addTo method
agile, 2^nd
AIM
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), 2^nd, 3^rd
  choosing a library
  g:submitToRemote
  introduced
  JSON return values
  remoting forms
  spinner
  using templates
all, as a format, 2^nd
annotations, with Spring Security
anonymous classes
anonymous functions, 2^nd
AnonymousAuthentication-Provider
Ant, 2^nd, 3^rd.
    See also Apache Ant.
Ant path patterns
Ant task
  for Grails
ant variable
AntBuilder, 2^nd
AOP.
    See aspect-oriented programming.
Apache Ant
  for Continuous Integration
  integration with
Apache Axis
Apache Ivy
Apache Maven
Apache Tomcat
API documentation
APIs
  changing
  stability of
app server
app.grails.version property
app.version property
application architecture
application context
  and plugins
  in integration tests
application development
application property, 2^nd
application scope
application server, 2^nd
application transactions
application.properties, 2^nd
application/JSON content type
application/xml
ApplicationContext, 2^nd
ApplicationHolder
archetype for Grails
argsMap variable
array notation
  for regular expression groups
arrays, in Groovy
Arrays.asList() method
artifact descriptors
artifacts
  definition of
  querying of
artifacts directory
as
  description of
  in character literals
  JSON
  XML
aspect-oriented programming, 2^nd, 3^rd
assert
assert*() method
assertCurrentStateEquals() method
assertFlowExecutionActive() method
assertFlowExecutionEnded() method, 2^nd
assertFlowExecutionOutcome-Equals() method, 2^nd
assertForwardUrlMapping() method
AssertionError
assertions
  disabling of
  in functional tests
  in testing
assertRedirectUrl() method
assertReverseUrlMapping() method
assertUrlMapping() method
asType() method, 2^nd
asynchronous processing
attach() method
attributes
  in tag unit tests
  when parsing XML
authenticated users
AuthenticateService
authentication, 2^nd
  in REST
authorities, 2^nd, 3^rd
authorityDomainClass
authorization
auto-autocommit
autocomplete
auto-increment
automated testing
automatic schema export
automation
  of functional testing
autotimestamping
autowiring
avg() projection