.NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework
developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a
large class library known as Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides
language interoperability (each language can use code written in other
languages) across several programming languages. Programs written for .NET
Framework execute in a software environment (as contrasted to hardware
environment), known as Common Language Runtime (CLR), an application virtual
machine that provides services such as security, memory management, and
exception handling. FCL and CLR together constitute .NET Framework.
FCL provides user interface, data
access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development,
numeric algorithms, and network communications. Programmers produce software by
combining their own source code with .NET Framework and other libraries. .NET
Framework is intended to be used by most new applications created for Windows
platform. Microsoft also produces an integrated development environment largely
for .NET software called Visual Studio.
Grails is an Open Source, full stack, web application
framework for the JVM. Grails is an open source web
application framework that uses the Groovy programming language (which is in turn
based on the Java platform). It is intended to be a high-productivity framework
by following the "coding by convention" paradigm, providing a
stand-alone development environment and hiding much of the configuration detail
from the developer.[citation needed]
Grails was previously known as
'Groovy on Rails'; in March 2006 that name was dropped in response to a request
by David Heinemeier Hansson, founder of the Ruby on Rails framework.[1] Work
began in July 2005, with the 0.1 release on March 29, 2006 and the 1.0 release
announced on February 18, 2008.
G2One - The Groovy Grails Company
- was acquired by SpringSource in November, 2008,[2] and it was later acquired
by VMware.[3]
A JDK is required in your Grails
development environment. A JRE is not sufficient.
Grails was developed to address a number of goals:
Provide a web framework for the Java platform.
Re-use existing Java technologies such as Hibernate and Spring under a
single interface
Offer a consistent development framework.
Offer documentation for key portions of the framework:
The Persistence framework.
Templates using GSP (Groovy Server Pages).
Dynamic tag libraries for creating web page components.
Customizable and extensible Ajax support.
Provide sample applications that demonstrate the framework.
Provide a complete development mode, including a web server and
automatic reload of resources.
