Wednesday, December 19, 2007

SAP announces Composition on Grails 1.0

Congrats to the SAP guys who have announced Composition on Grails 1.0, their toolkit for allowing quick development of composite applications on SAP NetWeaver 7.1 which is based on the current Grails 1.0 stream.

The following quote summarises their motivations for choosing Groovy and Grails:


"First, we needed a scripting language that runs in the JVM, so that ruled out some languages right there. Anything that runs outside the JVM will require some duplication of processes, and interprocess communication is more complicated. Second, we felt that Hibernate and Spring were well proven and we wanted to take advantage of them. Finally, the Groovy syntax and lifecycle management is very Java-like. This matters because the availability of skilled programmers is crucial in the enterprise space, and there are loads of Java developers out there."

It is a great to see a company as large of SAP who "gets it". Good job.

1 comment:

grandfatha said...

Grails is the next big thing. And I am happy to know it and have practical experience with it now that the big guys are "gettin it", too.


Thank you Rails guys for showing us the path, but we will walk the journey on our own.