How Does Grails Do It?
Grails takes a set of successful frameworks, each of which has made its own strides toward addressing the complexity of building web applications, and makes them all simpler, easier to use, and ultimately more powerful.
Grails bundles Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, H2, Tomcat, and a host of other battle-hardened frameworks, and following the principle of “convention over configuration,”[3] it removes the complexity for most use cases. And it uses the dynamic Groovy programming language to magically give us easy access to the combined power of these tools.
Recall from my story that on the projects I was involved in, Grails was a replacement for both JSF and EJB. JSF, like Struts before it and JSP before that, is intended ...
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