By Peter Bell

Grails 1.1 Released

Posted At : March 10, 2009 11:59 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Grails
I just wanted to post that this morning, the final cut of Grails 1.1 was released. Grails is a convention over configuration framework that allows you to quickly build web apps using a combination of Groovy and/or Java.

New features include:

  • Standalone GORM - Use GORM in non-Grails projects
  • Ant+Ivy and Maven Support - Build Grails with the two most prominent builds tools for Java
  • The Test Framework - A mock/unit testing framework for Grails
  • Better Plugins - Transitive plugin resolution, global plugins, in-place plugins and more
  • JSP Tag Library Support - GSPs can now use JSP taglibs
  • Controller Improvements - Handling of double-submits, forwards and includes and declarative exception handling
  • Spring Namespace Support - Use Spring namespaces inside BeanBuilder

Looks like an impressive release and I'll certainly be playing with it later this week . . .

You can download it here.

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Grails name suggest it follows Rails? Does it?
# Posted By grover | 3/10/09 8:33 PM
It's a convention over configuration web based framework that clearly sneaked a look at the Rails playbook, so it's in the same class of solution space, but the details are quite different. It;s a much better fit (IMO) for Java devs or anyone on the JVM looking to leverage the enterprise java frameworks like Hibernate and Spring. Rails is currently more mature with more nice features, but because they have to build everything from scratch, I could see Grails taking over in a year or 18 months.

And Rails on JRuby is cool, but Grails/Groovy is more relevant to Java devs with a lower learning curve and more seamless integration between the languages.
# Posted By Peter Bell | 3/10/09 9:01 PM
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