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I just saw this blog entry about deploying Grails apps on Tomcat.
I’m confused as to why there is a need to "grails run-app" on the server.
I have deployed Grails applications many times now on Tomcat 5.5 on remote servers that don’t even have Grails installed. All that is required is dumping the .war into the […]

It feels like there has always been somewhat of a divide between PHP and Java development. A large number of PHP projects seem to be quick and dirty hacks with no regard for scalability or extensibility, but that is why it has been so successful. A sad fact is that most people in this world […]

I picked up on a blog post by Carl Fyffe, not somebody who I am familiar with but hey that’s the joy of Google blog search.
Carl gives Grails a nod and complains about problems handling different request types and how you need multiple controllers when using Spring MVC. Not so with Grails! Grails sits on […]

Canoo WebTest author Dierk König pointed out to me that you can use Webtest which is well integrated with Grails to link check your site locally. This is a must-have functional test to include before deploying.
All you need to do is get webtest setup for your project by running
grails generate-webtest
It will prompt you for a […]

Now we’re all excited by iPhone’s multi-touch display, it seems it has opened the floodgates for discovery of projects working on this tech.
Look at this totally amazing video
The display is huge. The user interface mechanisms in the applications demonstrated are just wonderful and look incredibly natural. It’s not just multi touch, it’s multi user! multiple […]