Topic Archive: Grails

Grails and JSONP: How Easy is That?

Dietrich Kappe, Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

For all of those Java developers casting longing glances at their buddies doing Rails development, there is hope. Grails, which has just celebrated its 1.0 release, is a Rails-like "convention over configuration" framework that aims to do for the Java world what Rails has done for Ruby. Instead of Ruby, the dynamic programming language of choice is Groovy, which compiles to bytecode (no Groovy to Java translation) and integrates smoothly with just about any Java code you may be using.

I'll stop hyping Groovy and Grails in general here; there's plenty of good informational stuff on the Grails and Groovy home pages. I will note that if you run off the tracks a little bit, you can find yourself reading through 500-odd line stack traces of Groovy, Spring and Hibernate -- there's room for some improvement there.

One of the many nice things about Grails is it's support for JSON and XML. Let me put together a simple example that shows off some of Grails' power.

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