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In my opinion, Java was never out of the game. Gro...

2006-05-31T08:36:00.000-05:00

In my opinion, Java was never out of the game. Groovy opens new worlds for old development and developers. Although, I've seen a lot of fun stuff happening in Java and it's not been limited to Groovy. There's the Open Laszlo project, there's SwixML which has been reborn as SwixAT. There's Maven2, which I've been blogging about alot. There are now many scripting languages for Java, which I believe is the core beauty of the JVM. I know RoR is picking up steam but I hate to hear talk of it stealing Java developers because Java can obviously do everything Ruby can do and more.

Thanks to the anonymous for the “Categories” point...

2006-05-31T07:09:00.000-05:00

Thanks to the anonymous for the “Categories” pointer. I will definitely check this out.

Graeme,
I really appreciate your comments. You definitely answered some of my concerns or pointed out a couple of my misconception.

I am waiting with a great interest for your upcoming book.

Also, I know that a strong community can’t be built without various contributions and that’s why I will try to contribute in some ways as well. This blog was my small starting point.

Thanks for the fantastic feedback and comments. I'...

2006-05-31T04:13:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the fantastic feedback and comments. I'm actually more interested in commenting on the constructive criticism regarding Grails before anything else.

IDE Support
There is debugging support, install the latest build of the GroovyEclipse plugin, import a Grails project (it creates the .project files for you), set a break point and you can debug no problem.

Boiler plate Code in the domain
This is fair comment and has been noted by ourselves and we are working on a solution (see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-139) that will allow these to be optionally specified (ie the id, version, equals/hashCode etc.)

Empty Unit Tests
Another one on the todo list: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-137

Usage of Ant
Well there are positives and negatives to using Ant. The advantage if that there is a high level of knowledge within the industry of the Ant XML format. Users don't have to learn Groovy scripting to customise the build. We may long term provide a Groovy script instead however.

Groovy Community
Don't let the poor state of Groovy's documentation lead you to believe the community lacks direction. Groovy has a buzzing community and a growing following and with the upcoming book "Groovy in Action" by Manning you'll see a drastic improvement in the docs too.

Groovy does have mixins for class (static ) method...

2006-05-31T03:21:00.000-05:00