Mastering Grails: Asynchronous Grails with JSON and Ajax: "This article discusses Grails support for the complementary technologies JSON and Ajax. After playing supporting roles in previous Mastering Grails articles, this time they take center stage. You will make an Ajax request using the included Prototype library as well as the Grails tag. You'll also see examples of both serving up local JSON and dynamically pulling in remote JSON from across the Web."