Mastering the Grails Powerful Tiny Web Framework

Someone from IBM tips this article on their Developerworks site about Grails, a modern Web development framework that mixes familiar Java technologies like Spring and Hibernate. "Grails gives you the development experience of Ruby on Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. This article show you how to build your first Grails application with the lessons learned from Rails and the sensibilities of modern Java development."

Re:Grails?

[jma05]

> whoosh!

> Java + Rails = Jails

No whoosh! The GP's joke was not a perfect match. Grails is a *Groovy* framework. Jails, as a joke, is better applied for something like Trails, which is a Java clone of Rails.

Re:Java Sucks

[leighklotz]

> Where's the keystroke or mouse-click to get to the implementation?
EMACS and tags; Meta-.
> For auto-completion?
EMACS and dabrev; I bind it to Meta-Space.

> Where's the IDE that finds errors while I'm typing?
EMACS and flymake; It works for Java, PHP, perl, python, etc.

Here are screenshots of it working with python, all candy-colored for your editing pleasure, with mouseovers or minibuffer reports of errors as you type:

http://blog.printf.net/articles/2007/10/15/productivity-a-year-on [printf.net]