Groovy Grails Profile 2 Hot Off the Press!
Submitted by todd on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 22:34.So I finished the Profile2 or Three Tier Web Application with a screencast time of 1:32:42 for Groovy on Grails. Just a little slower than Ruby, Python, PHP and a little faster than Cold Fusion for Profile2. Take a look at the screencast portion of the site for details.
I am relatively new to IntellJ and IDEA. Guessing with a little more familiarity I could beat this time by a couple of minutes but not going to get to the stellar python django time. One thought I had which applies to both Grails and Rails is that we didn't get much out of the framework when we were given all of the HTML. IF we were in a prototyping environment and only given the specifications for the domain model instead of a full HTML prototype we could have taken advantage of the scaffolding, much more effectively. This may also be true for some of the other dynamic scripting language frameworks.
That's all for now, more to come adding the rest of the research data to the dar tool. Special thanks to Ed for getting it working in the shared hosting environment.
You can see the resulting code in the code portion of the site under Groovy.

