Grails 1.1 Will Support Maven

Graeme Rocher has just announced the 1.0.4 release of Grails.

More importantly, he mentioned a number of roadmap items for Grails 1.1. One of them is Maven support.

This is an important news for Maven community as it can potentially broaden Maven user base, which is great as I consider Maven an instrument in the rapid application development toolbox.

SpringSource Buys G2One

Rod Jonhson has just announced the acquisition of G2One, the company behind Groovy and Grails, by SpringSource.

First of all, congratulations to Graeme Rocher, Guillaume Laforge, and the rest of G2One team. They finally got their pay day and, more importantly, the recognition of the great effort they have been making.

This is a very important milestone for Java community as it marks a welcome consolidation of innovative technologies targeted at simplifying and accelerating the development of both enterprise and consumer applications based on Java technology.

Despite technological merits, historically Grails has been a very tough sell in the US. Putting the power of SpringSource behind it will definitely help.

At a more mandane level, we are promised a better Eclipse IDE support for Groovy (what about Grails?) and improved integration of Grails with SpringSource's stack of technologies.

The move demonstrates SpringSource's ongoing efforts to maintain its status quo of innovation leader in the enterprise Java community.