Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today's most compelling web
applications because they automate many of the tedious tasks allowing developers to instead
focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Java developers have been
particularly fortunate in this area having been able to take advantage of Grails an open
source framework that supercharges productivity when building Java-driven web sites. Grails is
based on Groovy which is a very popular and growing dynamic scripting language for Java
developers and was inspired by Python Ruby and Smalltalk. Beginning Groovy Grails and
Griffon is the first introductory book on the Groovy language and its primary web framework
Grails. Griffon is also covered. While Grails is the Web framework for building Groovy Web
applications Griffon is the deskop framework for building desktop Groovy applications. Could
Groovy be the new Java? It's light fast and free (open source). This book gets you started
with Groovy Grails and Griffon and culminates in the example and possible application of some
real-world projects. You follow along with the development of each project implementing and
running each application while learning new features along the way.
