Introduction to Grails Development: Build a Simple Grails App Using Oracle JDeveloper as Your IDE

Following the Ruby on Rails (RoR) wave, most software developers have considered, if not tried out, either ROR or some other framework that promises to deliver ROR features. The Grails framework also rode the Rails wave to popularity but is now shaping into a powerful framework in its own right. Grails uses the Groovy programming language; Groovy syntax is similar to Java's, but it also adopts some concepts from other languages. Like Java, Groovy generates bytecodes and runs on the Java platform, so it has the power of Java but also adds a few niceties and simplifications. In this paper one will get an introduction to developing Grails applications using Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE.