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When Ajax was introduced to the early and experienced developers,
only JavaScript developers rejoiced because that is the main
programming language of Ajax. Others who wanted to jump in the Ajax
bandwagon would just have to study the language from the scratch. Among the developers, those who already knew Java were struggling to
cope up. Not that they do not know the language but their knowledge are
just in the gateway to know something but not everything. They were
forced to leave Java and move to JavaScript just to use Ajax.
Fortunately, that should never be the case anymore. With Google in
the frontline, Java developers could use a Java based framework and end
up developing a highly efficient Ajax based application. Others
followed suit with remarkable success. One of those frameworks that use Java with remarkable functions is
Grails. This open-source framework is an RAD type framework – that
means it can easily go real fast and an application could easily be
established in no time at all. Grails uses the popular Groovy language
for their scripts. Going with Grails to be used in this framework are
additional frameworks of Java, Hibernate and Spring.
Grails is not actually hard to learn in the first place. Developers
who are already using Ruby on Rails will definitely see the similarity
with Grails. That is exactly the idea of Grails – instead of developing
another language to learn, it is just tied up with another framework.
If you are new in learning Grails, you will be glad to know that you
are also learning Rails at the same time.
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