Cours. Eclipse. Robin. Webservices. Certification. Home. The path to improvement. Java Virtual Machine - All about JVMs. The Design and Architecture of InfoQ. Processing 1.0. Glassfish: GlassFish - Open Source Application Server. Java Geeks. Grails (Framework) Grails was previously known as 'Groovy on Rails'; in March 2006 that name was dropped in response to a request by David Heinemeier Hansson, founder of the Ruby on Rails framework.[1] Work began in July 2005, with the 0.1 release on March 29, 2006 and the 1.0 release announced on February 18, 2008. G2One - The Groovy Grails Company - was acquired by SpringSource in November, 2008,[2] and it was later acquired by VMware.[3] Grails was developed to address a number of goals: Grails has three properties that differentiate it from traditional Java web frameworks: No XML configurationReady-to-use development environmentFunctionality available through mixins Creating web applications in Java traditionally involves configuring environments and frameworks at the start and during development.
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