Grails 1.1 is released

Grails 1.1 is released

 

A few days ago, springsource released version 1.1 of the open-source Web Application Framework grails. This version provides many new features, improvements, and bug fixes, and uses the latest release of groovy 1.6 (the overall performance of this version of groovy has been greatly improved ). Springsource summarized as follows:

Grails 1.1 simplifies and accelerates web application development so that developers can focus on the delivery of new products, at the same time, it can respond to users at a faster speed (much faster than the complicated and bloated application infrastructure ). The new version of grails is deeply integrated with spring by adding spring namespaces and using independent grails object relationship ing in spring MVC, it also closely integrates with the Java ecosystem through support for major build tools (such as Maven, ant, and Ivy. In addition, grails 1.1 also provides excellent support for the ever-changing plug-in community with major plug-in features (such as Global plug-ins, transitional plug-in resolutions, and modular plug-in development.

In addition to grails, one of the developers' top hopes is Gorm -- grails object relational mapping (grails object relationship ing ). As early as January this year, Graeme Rocher, Gails Development Director under springsource, informed the community that he had Transplanted the spring MVC pet hospital application to gorm.

Graeme provides the following code snippets, and spring provides a sessionfactory that can use Gorm:

<gorm:sessionFactory base-package="org.grails.samples"
                     data-source-ref="dataSource"
                     message-source-ref="messageSource">
   <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <util:map>
             <entry key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="update"/>
         </util:map>
   </property>
</gorm:sessionFactory>
 

Graeme also detailed several features added in grails 1.1 on its blog at the springsource site. In addition, several plug-ins are added, including commentable and taggable. With these two plug-ins, we can add comments and tags to domain object instances. At the same time, grails's portal plug-ins are also under development, aiming to improve the plug-in experience of grails developers and users.

Wired magazine published a case study on its website wired.com to provide some usage information about grails. Paul Fisher, wired.com's technical manager, said:

With grails, newcomers can easily and quickly join the project because it provides a simpler, clearer, and intuitive development process... developers without Java or grails experience can quickly master grails and improve productivity. Both cainiao and Java prawns can benefit from grails.

With springsource's acquisition of g2one and recruiting the creators of groovy and grails, grails will continue to flourish and be favored by developers. For grails, the Long March is just getting started, and the drama is still coming soon.