ToCollege on Grails

[jaga]

Hi,

I wondered whether a more up to date implementation of this web site
could be achieved using the Groovy on Grails. Is it worth it to port
the Spring MVC portion to Grails?

Jaga

[jdwy]

Hi Jaga,
Sounds like a great fork ;) Yeah, I think that if I were to do it
again today it would definitely be grails. Right now I'm a little out
of the Java loop bc my day job is all Ruby on Rails, but I think
dynamic languages are great for webapps. Feel free to fork the
project. If you make progress converting to Grails I'd definitely pull
that back into master.
-Jeff

[jaga]

There is also Roo. Perhaps this is an better option, since it is
directly compatible with Spring. It uses Spring 3.0 however. I think
I'll start by porting the code straight to my app.
I have a GWT prototype, which I will integrate into a framework to
take advantage of its features and maturity. For example, I need
Security, Web search optimisation, User session persistence.
I think the incubation stuff for GWT which implements various Design
Patterns isn't suitable for me.

Thanks,
Jaga

[jdwy]

Yeah, I haven't had much of a chance to investigate Roo. Afaict it's
not really anything too new, just a lot of wrapping together of
existing tech. Not that that's a bad thing at all of course! It sounds
like a legitimate way to get the server end going, but from what I can
tell you'll be on your own getting GWT to play with it. Shouldn't be
too bad...