The Grails development team are pleased to announce the release of Grails 0.1. This is a big step in Grails lifespan as it marks the first release that we, the Grails development team, feel is of a sufficient standard to encourage more users to take up usage of Grails as a platform.
Grails is built on industrial strength Open-Source technology such as Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh and offers a Rails-like environment that integrates seamlessly with the Java platform allowing developers to utilise their existing investment in Java and the JDK.
Grails offers a complete development environment including the inclusion of the Jetty web server and provides powerful features such as simple Object Relational Mapping (ORM), automatic application reloading, and scaffolding of interfaces for CRUD (Create, Read,Update,Delete) operations.
In addition Grails offers features and idioms that align closely with those within the Java community, including:
- AOP-Style Interceptors
- Dynamic Tag Libraries
- JSP & Groovy Servers Pages (GSP) Support
There is clearly still much to do however and we plan more frequent release cycles over the coming months. To view the current Grails roadmap please visit JIRA using the following link:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel
To download the current release please visit our Download page using the following link:
http://grails.codehaus.org/Download
Thanks to all those who participated in making this release happen including the Grails development team, Grails' increasingly active user list for the many issue reports and ideas and everyone else who contributed to the process.
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Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead
http://grails.codehaus.org