Debating web development toolsets

[Jamon Camisso]

Dave Cramer wrote:
> f you're really interested in an enterprise version of RoR check out grails
> 
> www.grails.org
> 
> The site is experiencing some issues right now, but it was built on RoR 
> ;) (not by the authors of grails)
> 
> Basically use all of the good parts of Rails on top of java. The benefit 
> of course is lots of prebuilt working code from the java world.
> 
> And people who listen. They do support composite keys ;)

I was just chatting with a developer today who showed me Grails and 
Groovy. Grails isn't related to Ruby or Rails though, perhaps in spirit, 
but not in terms of code. Still, I had a test webapp running in 5 
minutes with a few simple objects that I could add/remove. I am not a 
programmer and I found it very easy to get started with.

 From the Grails README:

"Grails is a web based application framework based on the Groovy 
language that endorses the DRY (don't repeat yourself) and 
coding-by-convention philosophies. Grails runs on the Java Virtual 
Machine and thus has access to the entire Java Platform.

With Grails you can easily create web applications thanks to:

- a complete development and deployment environment. All dependencies 
and configuration that is required to the run Grails applications in a 
web server are provided by Grails. The only thing you have to worry 
about is your application code.

- inclusion of an embedded Jetty web server

Jamon
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