Top 5 reasons why you should consider Groovy and Grails for your enterprise software architecture right now. I’m so amazed when I see how so few companies are using Groovy and Grails right now, and are still using old stuff like Spring and Hibernate, that I thought I would jump in and do my share of educating.
And why not give in to the fashion of top lists while I’m at it? So here it goes: if you are an enterprise software architect and you have a lot of Java in your world, you might want to read carefully what follows. 1- Grails really IS Spring and Hibernate (with sugar on top) I said earlier that Grails was a good replacement for vanilla Spring/Hibernate, but it’s even better. Grails - The search is over. Groovy - Home.