Grails 0.3 released

Graeme Rocher released Grails 0.3 today. Grails is a rapid development framework in the mould of Ruby on Rails but with Java and Groovy at its core, with best of breed Java tools built in, including Hibernate and Spring.

Version 0.3 resolves a mammoth 115 issues and adds powerful new features like many-to-many relationships, custom validators and a great number of other Hibernate/ORM related improvements and fixes. It represents a major improvement over 0.2.x in terms of quality and the elimination of many niggles that were tripping people up when they first started using it.

It feels like Grails’ momentum is building rapidly and in particular Graeme is to be thanked for the hard work he has put in. We are getting more contributors coming on line now and lots of new issues being created, which is a sign of success!

There are major plans afoot already for version 0.4…