Robert Cooper has posted a discussion on Groovy and Grails in the O'Reilly Opinion section.

A lot of Groovy people are (rightly so) pissed — can I use that word here? — that Sun effectively "endorsed" Ruby over Groovy. Grails is an .... almost... perfectly good analogue to Rails, and Groovy definitely sits better with most Java people.

Here is the problem, guys. You aren't buzzword compliant. At this point, arguing the merits of Groovy over Ruby or Grails vs Rails doesn't matter in the least. The "technorati" have dubbed RoR "the big thing."

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/02/dear_groovy_people.html

The Grails team have released version 0.4.1 of Grails which includes a number of incremental bug fixes and improvements following the 0.4 milestone and feedback from Grails' excellent user community.

Users can obtain the release from the Downloads page.

Enjoy.

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Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead

The Grails team are pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.2 of Grails. This release builds on the previous 0.4.x revisions with incremental improvements, mainly in the areas of auto-reloading and application start-up time.

Enjoy!

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Graeme Rocher
Grails Project Lead

The First International Grails eXchange 2007

Registration Now Open! Barbican Centre, London, May 30th - June 1st

Learn to drive your web platform to the next level!

The First International Grails eXchange 2007 is promising to be a great event a self-respecting Java web developer cannot afford to miss.

Packed with presentations on Grails, Groovy, Ajax & Web 2.0 and JEE and the core technologies that support the Grails technology stack such as JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Dojo and Quartz.

Come to see speakers including Grails project leadGraeme Rocher, Groovy project lead Guillaume LaForge, creator of Spring Rod Johnson, Dojo's Alex Russel and Dylan Schieman as well as speakers from technology-leading organisations such as Google, Interface 21, JBoss, Oracle & Sun Microsystems

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• The Groovy Language
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