The programming languages that created a buzz in the 90’s were like COBOL, C++ AND java etc. which have now been pushed to the grounds with the emergence of more advanced and user friendly programming languages. There was a term “garbage collection” often used by people that time. By that they referred the collection of various programming languages to do a single task and that way they really meant what they said.

Java took up the crowds unlike any other language, and there started the era of Java Devolvement. Java provides a truly platform independent solution to its clients. After that many a software development frameworks were developed around java platforms like Swing, Struts, Hibernate and GWT etc. and Microsoft corporations came up with its own unique .NET platform.

Today java has become a perfect platform to build highly robust and scalable solutions. The most mature software platform today is J2EE which runs on java stacks. Many critical applications rely on J2EE as the base to develop java based frameworks like Java Sever Faces etc. Social networking sites like Facebook and twitter have also employed the same J2EE technology, which is the reason why twitter sometimes is found inaccessible. But have we ever thought why Facebook and twitter like big agencies spent a good chunk of money on java based applications? The reason is a bit twisted and complicated.

Since a number of fast track result oriented platforms like Ruby on Rails and CakePHP are available for the same purpose still java has something very promising unlike them.
The robustness an scalability provided by java based applications is just unmatchable. And if Java Development is accompanied with the fast java development abilities of ruby on rails framework then there wouldn’t be any doubt about the ultimate performance. And there came up the concept of Grails. It is an open source software development framework focusing on increasing the productivity by using a dynamic language called Groovy for the Java Virtual Machine. Grails is basically built on Java Stack.

Groovy, the language in Grails development framework is actually a tough language which requires some time even by solid developers to understand it initially. The coding is a bit difficult, but the developers can write more functionality in fewer codes through it. Grails has a library of plugins to help the implementation of various features created. Functionality testing and JUnit testing can be used effectively to test the components under the Test Software Development Firm.