theJavaJar.com

I recently signed up with a Java hosting provider. I needed to put something together to prove to myself and clients that Grails would be a viable solution to create some quick custom applications. I have seen Groovy and Grails do some great things and I have written a few applications to test the technology, but I have mostly run the applications in hosted mode.

I thought that a good test would be to create a simple account/address/contact management application because that is a pretty common business application. I just kept it in line with what I have seen out there and I was guided by some requirements in my head. It is really simple, but it is definitely prettier, more intuitive, and easier to maintain than a lot of code I have seen that has taken 10x longer to build.

I spent about 8-10 hours putting it together and running it through some tests. I spent another 1-2 hours getting it deployed on my JBoss 4 server with a MySQL JNDI datasource configured and managed within JBoss. I don’t think the application will change the world, but it just confirms my belief that Grails is an incredible technology/tool set that keeps you focused on solving business problems rather than fighting technology.

url: http://www.axiomaticit.com/accountManager
email: admin@admin.com
password: admin