Chapter 1. Getting Started with Grails

Grails is a dynamic web development framework on the Java platform for rapid application development. It has taken the coding by convention approach popularized by Ruby on Rails, and applied it as a wrapper over long established open source Java frameworks such as Hibernate and Spring. It uses the flexibility of Groovy to provide a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for web development.

The goal is to be able to develop web applications with the minimum amount of effort without having to repeat yourself. Grails provides a consistent and reliable environment between all of your projects.