If you noticed the books I’m reading, my current selection are on Grails and Groovy. Grails is a framework written in Groovy (a scripting-like language) which allows extremely rapid web application development. I kid you not when I say that you can get a simple web app running in a matter of minutes. Code whole applications (provided you have a clear requirement and design) within a few days. My previous plan of using AppFuse might have to take a backseat now that I’ve seen what Grails can do. And I’m not even familiar with Groovy! I can only imagine what sort of productivity boost I can realize when I master both Grails and Groovy.

Of course the best thing about Groovy and Grails is that both are very Java friendly.