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Inspired By Ruby on Rails, Grails to Go Beyond Web App Dev
Inspired by Ruby on Rails, Grails leverages the Java Virtual Machine and the Groovy language.
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Grails has been available since 2007, and has been used to deploy Netflix to the Amazon Web Services cloud, as well as for the Hudki search engine for real estate and used cars. In an interview, Grails project lead Graeme Rocher of Pivotal discusses where the open source Web development framework is headed.
Inspired by Ruby on Rails, Grails leverages the Java Virtual Machine and the Groovy language. The headline feature for Grails 2.3 is comprehensive REST support on the server side, but there are new application programming interfaces for supporting asynchronous programming as well, Rocher says. There will be a minor 2.4 release, which supports Spring 4.0 and Groovy 2.2, before the arrival of version 3.0 next year.
"With Grails 3, we're looking at extending the reach of Grails to target other [deployment] destinations [besides Java application servers], so things like batch processing applications, Hadoop, event-driven systems," Rocher says. The project will introduce the concept of an application profile, or a set of plug-ins that allows users to target the particular deployment environment.
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