Real World Grails

Ugh -- yet another Java web framework? No way. Grails is a fully integrated, modern Java web development stack. It includes a web server, a database, Spring, Hibernate, Sitemesh, build scripts, out-of-the-box testing support, and the dynamic language Groovy holding it all together. Coupling the power of these mainstream libraries with the ease-of-use that Groovy offers, you have an unprecedented collection of technologies that will have you up and running in record time. Grails maximizes the strengths of these familiar Java libraries while minimizing the XML jockeying it usually takes to get them all to play nicely with one another. It brings "Convention over Configuration" to Java. It uses Groovy as the language to glue the pieces together, which means that experienced JEE developers can leverage their existing knowledge with libraries that they are already familiar with.