Mastering the Grails Powerful Tiny Web Framework

Someone from IBM tips this article on their Developerworks site about Grails, a modern Web development framework that mixes familiar Java technologies like Spring and Hibernate. "Grails gives you the development experience of Ruby on Rails while being firmly grounded in proven Java technologies. This article show you how to build your first Grails application with the lessons learned from Rails and the sensibilities of modern Java development."

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Fail

[Wiseman1024]

This sounds like a poor man's Rails. Why would I want to develop smartly using such a limited, powerless, unexpressive language? All the productivity you could want gets lost by working with Java and its bloated, overengineered, god awful API and toy object model that gets forced upon you all the time.

The sensibilities of modern Java development? What a poetic way to say "we've dumbed it down and made it a living toy-OOP hell". Besides, modern Java development is usually Google code search copypasta with some ugly so-called glue.