Re: Anyone playing with Groovy or Grails?

Posted in 2007

Carsten Haese — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:50:09 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 14:28 +0000, Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Got hit with this by a client. > > The interesting thing is that unlike Python or Ruby, if you have an > infrastructure already built upon java, Groovy will be able to integrate in > to it. > > One of the IT Architects thought that it deserves a peak because it would > simplify the architecture and limit the number of languages that we have to > support. > > Thoughts? No, I have not played with Groovy, but I have thoughts: Groovy is not the only choice to get a dynamic language to integrate with Java. Jython and JRuby are viable options that may provide a larger base of existing "mindshare". -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net