Why Groovy, not Java?

[lchong2]

Hi,

Why Grails has to use a new language, Groovy and not Java?

Why Grails stack has to layer on top of Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, etc?


rgds,
lchong2

[bdangubic]

Hi,
Why Grails has to use a new language, Groovy and not Java?

For the same reason Spring used the new language Java and not C/C++ in 2004 when it was released

Why Grails stack has to layer on top of Java EE, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, etc?
rgds,
lchong2

Because of DRY Principle