A pretty darn good Grails example
Event though I’ve had my own recent frustrations with Grails, I haven’t given up on it just yet and I’ve been following Glen Smith’s progress on his Groovy Blogs Grails project.
While not a huge application, it by all means fits the definition of a ‘real world’ application. It has a simple object model, but it used caching, cron jobs, external libraries (ROME for RSS feeds) and a little AJAX for spice. I took a quick browse through the code (which he says is Apache 2.0 licensed) and I like what I see. I’ll probably use it as a reference for some of my early Grails experiments.
What really interested me though was that I’m working on a Java based blog aggregator project of my own, but not using Grails. Glen claims 22 hour to build his application, including the complete user interface. I haven’t kept track of my time on my project, but I’ll probably put a few more than 22 hours into my project. Some time down the road it might be tempting to replace my hand written code for a Grails-based solution. We shall see.
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