Why Grails

Grails is an open source framework for web development that runs on the J2EE platform. It is mainly built on Groovy, a language which can be thought of as an extension to Java.

Combines principles such as "convention over configuration" (Convention Over Configuration) and "Do not repeat yourself" (Do not Repeat Yourself) together with a series of open source frameworks like Hibernate, Spring and SiteMesh.

Grails aims to be a highly productive framework, providing a standardized development environment and hiding much of the configuration details to the programmer.

Grails uses two testing frameworks: JUnit and Cano  to implement unit tests, integration and functional. As is known, the goal of software testing is that it behaves as expected and that when you modify the code, the evidence that had happened in the past still worked.

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