>From Gary Berosik, Twin Cities OTUG ... I thought this might be
applicable to what we're working on:
Ever heard of Grails (http://grails.codehaus.org/)? I've heard that
it is Rails-like RAD web development power in a Groovy \ Java
environment. One of the main books on Grails (e.g., "The Definitive
Guide to Grails) has as it's main ongoing example the development of a
private \ shared bookmark \ tag application that we might use as a
starting point. I was impressed with the ease and speed of
development of such a moderately complex Web 2.0 mashup application
using Grails.
It appears that "coding by convention"-based development environments
like Rails and Grails definitely represent improved bases for web
application development. This might be a good prototyping tool for
the type of social networking development that we're contemplating.
- Craig.
