Groovy and Grails in Action
A Spring house is moving to Grails development for web based application. Plus, Spring is going to totally disappear in the middleware in this house. How come?
Any unit test framework for Groovy and functional test (BDD) for Grails you know or recommend?
If it's the "productivity enabling" feature of Grails that they're after then have a look at Spring Roo.
That's my 2c
Check out, build and run test and deploy the first ever Grails project today and yesterday. Quite impressed with the efficiency and speed Groovy and Grails bring in.
From Java background that mean you don't to learn a new language. You have the problem, you still can think in Java's way. Not like Ruby developers just because they hate Java. Having Ruby on Rails experience before that make you don't need to change your mindset.
Grails vs. RoRs debate can put later.
One thing I'm still in doubt is the robust an scalability of the latest script like languages. Groovy, the implication being on the top of Java and cross compilation is taking place. A colleague told me Grails in Linkedin site seems quite successful. But I'm looking for more evidence and best practices.
STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) as the official development IDE, but back to home I'm running in IntelliJ.