Web Application Development – Why choose Groovy and Grails?
By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2011-02-10 04:31:27 | Word Count: 503
Web application development needs to be very quick in these times of tight competition among the businesses.
Grails is one of the latest programming languages that serve the purpose of Rapid Application Development. The inspiration for development of this language was drawn from Ruby on Rails. Grails works on Java's Virtual Machine also known as JVM. This language depends on Groovy which is again compatible with the JVM. The popularity of Grails is sky rocketing. Grails is one of the quickest growing web frameworks for Rapid Application Development (RAD). The use of Grails allows the developer to increase the productivity a lot many times.
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The infrastructure of any website needs to be set up through initial coding. It usually takes weeks to write this initial code when the traditional Java programming language is used. On the contrary with the help of Groovy and Grails this duration is curtailed to just two hours. This proves that the productivity and speed of developing the web application with the help of Groovy and Grails is implausible. Besides this advantage, there are other aspects too where Groovy and Grails ranks above the Java development.
The other advantages include unmatched support for testing, and GORM which is one of the most prominent layers for abstraction of database. The classes can be reloaded automatically. The code can be changed and there is a facility of refreshing the click in the browser to view the changes made. There is a facility for scaffolding too.
The use of Grails facilitates the developer with the robustness that Java provides and at the same time unparalleled speed for developing the application. Grails has provided one of the best solutions to the users of Java to use it in the most effective way.
The principle of Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is followed by Grails. This allows the quick accommodation of the changes that are required. The developers are facilitated with nearly 500 plugins. The Grails community is very vibrant. The online documentation pertaining to the use of Grails is very extensive. These facilities assure that the developer is not stranded at any issue for a longer time. The spontaneity assists in quick productivity of the web application developing team even if they are new to the niceties of Grails.
The list of the companies using Grails includes Pepsi, LinkedIn, Aegeon, and Sky.com It is because of ease and the features that the Grails is now being preferred to Django or Rails.
Grails is now being used for the development of main stream technology. It is now the Ruby on Rails (RoR) of the Java world. G2One is the company that has brought Groovy and Grails into existence. In Nov 2008, SpringSource acquired this company. Later on VMware acquired Spring Source.
A professional web application developer is supposed to know the use of Groovy and Grails.
