Benefits Of Building Web Applications Using Grails

By Author: Mark Royson
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Grails is one of the largest open source web programming languages used for the purpose of Rapid Application Development [RAD]. Just as Rails in integration with Ruby programming language, Grails wouldn't be so powerful without the influence of Groovy. Groovy is a dynamic language that runs on JVM and seamlessly integrates with Java language. As Grails works on JVM, it totally depends on Groovy which is compatible with it.

Grails is now considered as RoR of the Java World and is now being used for the development of main stream technology. It facilitates web developers with the robustness that Java provides along with the unparallel speed required for web development. It also benefits developers to increase the productivity of the application by using Grails.

Grails is a general purpose web development framework which comes with a powerful Object Relational Modeling [ORM] technology. This is known as GORM by which you can easily model your domain objects and make them stick with the relational database of your choice, without dealing with any SQL.

Below are the main reasons for - Why Grails is great for ...
... web application development -

1] It is very easy for any Java Developer to start using Grails for web development.

2] Grails is much more concise and communicative web programming language than Java. The lines of code are fewer which benefits in easy maintenance of codes and high development productivity.

3] It has a very supportive and responsive community for Grails Developers and users.

4] The best thing of developing app with Grails is - there is no need of restarting the web container after making every small change. It uses the intelligent mechanism to reload and apply the changes.

5] Because of the naming conventions and standard project structure, it is always easier to maintain the Grails projects.

6] It provides utilities to make the testing phase easy. Moreover, Grails promotes testing and any testing framework can work with it.

7] Grails allows reusing the code between different Grails apps by modularizing the current app in the form of plug-ins.

8] It has many plug-ins, all contributed by the core development team and other Grails application developers.

Besides these reasons, you will find more hundred of small things at the time of developing with Grails that will make the development part more interesting. Grails is gaining a lot of popularity in the web application development market lately. The companies already using Grails includes - Pepsi, LinkedIn, AEGON, and many more.

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