Category: Manage

Gravy: Grails Version Manager for Windows OS

As Grails adoption grows within an organization, it is likely that over time different projects will end up running on different Grails versions. Consequently, developers will need to ensure they have corresponding runtime enabled within their environment. That is exactly what GVM Tool is meant to do. Unfortunately for many corporate users there is a little pesky obstacle to its use: Windows.

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Grails: Perfect for the Enterprise

There are quite a few modern web frameworks out there vying for attention. In the startup scene, where CTOs have carte blanche, frameworks like Rails (Ruby), Django (Python), and CodeIgniter (PHP) seem to get the most attention. All of these frameworks are highly productive in a green field environment. In an enterprise setting however, Grails has some compelling advantages over these frameworks, making it a natural choice for any enterprise IT shop seeking the extreme productivity that modern web frameworks offer, and that startups take for granted.

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