Groovy and Grails On A Roll
posted Tuesday, 8 May 2007
 | There were 600 developers sitting in on the Groovy session this morning. I missed it. I came in late - saw how huge the line was and saw that the room was already almost filled and I abandoned all hope. Afterwards I met with Guillaume LaForge (Groovy) and Graeme Rocher (Grails). It is clear that these symbiotic communities are growing quickly. Leveraging the the large advantage of being a Java-based framework with culturally and syntactic closeness to Java there is an increasing number of Java developers that are finding it to be closer to their developer culture than alternatives (like Ruby). Incidentally, Grails 0.5 is now out. New features included are : Custom URL mappings DSL, command objects/form validation, list and map support in GORM, support for composition in domain class (Hibernate "components"), Base64 codec, dependency resolution with Ivy, Project metadata and versioning support, script event hooks, new Artifact API available to plugins and much more. Visit the grails site to find out more. | |
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