On 25th of february we organized a hands-on grails session in Brussels.

Grails aims to bring the “coding by convention” paradigm to Groovy. It’s an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development.

Under the hood we find:

• spring for configuration and TX management
• spring mvc : the base of the web framework
• hibernate for persisting objects in the database

One of the powerful features of grails is scaffolding which makes it very easy to build CRUD application from scratch in only a few minutes.

More information about grails can be found here

The handouts of the grails session can be found here

Dowload the STS (Spring Tool Suite) with the groovy plugin for support in your IDE