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Grails 1.0-RC2 Released

URL: Grails 1.0-RC2 Released

At 5:49 AM on Dec 4, 2007, Marcel Overdijk wrote:

The Grails development team has reached another milestone and is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0-RC2 of the Grails web-application development framework.

Grails is a dynamic web-application framework built in Java and Groovy, leveraging best of breed APIs from the Java EE sphere including Spring, Hibernate and SiteMesh. Grails brings to Java and Groovy developers the joys of convention-based rapid development while allowing them to leverage their existing knowledge and capitalize on the proven and performant APIs Java developers have been using for years.

Improvements:
- 140+ Bug fixes and improvements
- Brand new Reference Documentation
- Now shipping with Spring 2.5
- Support for Content Negotiation for REST
- Automatic JSON and XML Unmarshalling for REST
- Support for foreign key and join table mappings with the ORM DSL

New Features:
- Content Negotation
- Automatic XML/JSON Unmarshalling
- Support for Mapping Foreign Key Columns and Join Tables

The release is available for immediate download from the Grails download page .

Full release notes are available on the wiki here .

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