Grails

Grails is a Spring powered, high productivity, convention over configuration based web framework often used for used for rapid application development. Although I've only recently been introduced to the framework, I'll try to give a solid overview of what it has to offer, including a presentation showing how a few friends and I developed a Grails based chat client hosted on ec2 for a class in a very short time. I initially wanted to present on this because I found that Grails made extraordinarily easy to dig in and get work done with as little configuration and fuss as possible. It also seamlessly integrates with both Hibernate and Spring out of the box with virtually zero setup making it a great option for quickly standing up applications utilizing powerful frameworks in short amounts of time.