Groovy as a replacement of JAVA

Hi Dave,

In groovy, functionality can be achived with a minimal code compare to JAVA.

Can we use Groovy as a replacement of JAVA for a web development project.

Thanks & Regards,

Sunil Chavan.

That's a very big question.

I'll try to answer it in the context of Grails.

With Grails you are using quite a bit of Java code that somebody else wrote. (Spring, Hibernate, etc.) But you don't have to write any Java code to use Grails. So, yes, you can completely replace Java with Groovy in a web application as far as the code you are writing is concerned.

However, if you come across a situation where you need to do some heavy computation, and performance is an issue, it might be preferable to use Java. Grails makes that easy too. Just add any .java source files that you would like to include in your project, into the /src/java directory and they'll be compiled and ready to use throughout your application.

Grails really can give you the best of both worlds!

Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks a lot for your answer.

Sunil Chavan.

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[MG edited as it no longer made sense. See my post below for background]

Sunil,
Thank you for noticing the issue. I have removed the offending post.

PS> Sunil's message above referred to a post which was not suitable for the Ranch.

Hi Maneesh,

Thanks a lot for such a quick response.

Thanks & Regards,

Sunil Chavan

I would rather say it is meant to compliment it than compete with it