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Grails 0.4 Hits the Street

Published on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 in grails

Grails 0.4 hit the street today.  And now that the world has officially yawned at Vista, we need something a bit more interesting to get into.  Don't you think?  Queue Grails 0.4.  It's a solid release with numerous enhancements and new-found extensibility.  Check out the official release notes for full details, but here are a few of the heavy hitters...

  • Rockin' New Plug-in System - Grails is now easily extensible thanks to the new plug-in system.  Can't wait for the dev team to implement the feature you want?  Write it as a plug-in, and make it available for others to enjoy as well.  We've seen what extensibility can do for software these days, and we've already seen some impressive Grails plug-ins come to life.  Even before today's official release of Grails 0.4, a few ambitious early adopters have kindly contributed an XFire plugin (for easily exposing Grails service classes as web services) and an OpenLaszlo plugin (for building Rich Internet Applications [RIAs] with Grails).
  • Improved JEE container support - With this release, Grails now runs well on GlassFish.  (If you're interested in seeing a quick concept app using Grails and GlassFish, check out Glen Smith's Groogle experiment, which integrates Grails with Lucene.)
  • Over 200 enhancements and bug fixes! - This laundry list of improvements includes everything from automatic encoding of unsafe HTML characters - Automatic!  Excellent! - to more reliable resource reloading when running in development mode - Ahhh...Productivity!

Download away, and enjoy!