Grails FTW
You might remember me ranting about Ruby on Rails some time ago. There were speed issues though and hence it never made it past the “playing around” phase.
Now there is Grails. Grails stands for Groovy on Rails I suppose and is pretty much that. It mimics the behaviour of Rails where possible.
The good thing is that you can run grails applications on pretty much any servlet container. This brings enterprise features (i.e. scalability) to your application.
Grails makes use of some pretty sophisticated libraries, namely Hibernate and Spring, just to name two.
The good thing is that this is hidden from you for the most party and you can start developing right away. If you are a little bit familiar with Groovy that is. I just ordered books on Groovy as well as on Grails (and some on Python, but that does not matter at the moment).
I’ll post more on Grails in the next few days. I really think it’s going to be big.
