The Beginning with Grails

I took some time off of work on a self funded sabbatical, so I could, among other things play around with some new technologies. I had experience with various Java based web application frameworks that used the stack including Spring, and Hibernate. Since Grails offered the promise of combining these frameworks plus templating engines, and several other features, I was interested in working with it.

I prefer to monkey around with frameworks a bit before I believe the hype. So, I read the book Grails in Action, and I went at building a non-trivial website.

These linked articles here touch upon several of the elements, and challenges that went into building a Grails site from scratch without having previous Groovy or Grails experience:

• 2010-04-19: The CompareXY Site Experiement
• 2010-05-04: Groovy, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiement
• 2010-05-03: Grails, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiement
• 2010-05-03: Searchability, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiement
• 2010-05-03: Twitter, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiement
• 2010-05-03: Facebook, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiment
• 2010-05-03: Amazon WebServices, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiment
• 2010-05-03: JQuery, Continuing The CompareXY Site Experiment