Grails 1.0 Released

Graeme Rocher, from G2One Inc., announced the release of Grails 1.0 this morning. The release notes are available from grails.org.

If you're a Java person and aren't familiar with Grails or Groovy for that matter, you should definitely check out Grails. Grails is a rapid web application development framework based on convention over configuration. It is designed MUCH like Ruby-on-Rails, but built using Groovy as a language. The main benefits of this approach is that Groovy is based on Java; which means it looks and feels like Java. This helps introduce it to a team and lower the learning curve. The other benefit is that it builds down to a WAR file that you can deploy into any old application server. No special hackery required. This is important when deploying it into a very 'enterprisey' environment.

Also, the internals of Grails and how it works are not based on it's own invented voodoo. Grails uses Spring, Hibernate, and Acegi internally. Good stuff...