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Over at eclectic-pencil.blogspot.com I have some notes on getting Grails up and running without having to chase through a FAQ and some mail-list threads. I may add a few pages here. At the moment I am completely absorbed with the RIFE web app framework, so that may get a few pages as well. RIFE continuations are a great introduction to the Seaside continuations framework for folks more at home with Java. RIFE is also a framework in more than name-only. And the author of the framework aims it at java developers with no promises of ‘RIA without programming’ and, well, less hype: they do stretch the 80-20 rule in claiming that “you get 90% of the features with 10% of the usual effort, thanks to its full stack.” RIFE continuations use pause(), rather like Ruby uses yield(), so that is another avenue to approach RIFE. The RIFE wiki has a page on using groovy with RIFE so life will be interesting. Here is a recent Artima piece on JRuby and RIFE. The article has a link worth visiting on Terracotta with RIFE.
