Groovy vs. Rails question

One of the limitations of Ruby on Rails is that it really only supports �greenfield� applications � legacy databases and table structures are difficult to support - how does Groovy compare in this regard?

Thanks!

With Grails your investment in legacy databases and/or Java domain models is fully preserved.

Grails leverages Hibernate and you can use all Hibernate features to map onto an existing database or map existing Java domain models (XML or annotation style).
You can still use all the merits of dynamically building your web application in this scenario.

It goes without saying that the "greenfield" scenario is also support, in which case no explicit mapping is needed and you gain even more speed.

Graeme, the Grails project lead, may want to add more to this topic...

Check out Grails, it's groovy!
Dierk

D'oh! Does this mean I'm ineligible to be entered to win the book?

Thanks for the feedback John!