With Grails 1.1 (RC2 at the time of this writing) the Grails team made it much more easy to use GORM, the Grails Object Relational Mapper outside of Grails itself. Starting from a discussion on the grails-user mailinglist, which cumulated in this blogentry I wanted to make Tapestry 5 run on top of it and succeeded.

The most important thing to note is that you have to write your page classes in groovy if you want to use the dynamic finders etc. of Gorm. If you want to use Gorm capabilities from java you need to write a groovy wrapper aka dao.

The Spring Rich Projekt has released version 1.0.0!

After a few years in the version numbers 0.1 - 0.3 now the first "real" release was published. But there is not only reasons to rejoiuce, since it will probably be, apart from bugfixes, also the last release.

The development team met with other Spring-Developers and decides that with the changes and developmenst in the last years, among others the RCP projects of Netbeans and Eclipse and the Java Application Framework a wholeheartedly modernizes new start would be necessary. The new project will be coinces Spring Desktop and will be better integrated with the other Spring-Projects.

Not only in the world of programming there is a public tendency to run after each new hype and forget about the solid and proven basements upon which these hypes are built, declaring them dead, dying or obsolete with a hearty lightness.

But the reality in application development is a bit different. Not only visible in facts like the thriving life of COBOL in financial applications, but also in facts, that many projects still require for example JDK 1.3 or 1.4.

Why? Because its works!