Grails 2.0 released

It took Grails 6 years from it’s beginning to reach version 2.0.
A lot of great and long awaited features justify the version jump from 1.3 to the new major release 2.0.

Visit the What’s new in Grails 2.0? page for a nice summary of all the new features and grab it while it’s hot.

My favorite new features are:

• Spring 3.1
• Tab completion for the Grails console – closing the gap to Spring Roo
• Reloading Agent (hopefully it’s better than the current class reloading feature)
• H2 Database and Console – finally you can look into your development database! RIP HSQLDB…
• Binary Plugins
• Controller actions as methods – I did never understand why Grails prior to 2.0 used closures for controller actions…
• HTML5 Scaffolding – at last. It was about time!
• Easy Date Parsing – missed it so much, no more hand made date conversion routines…
• Multiple Data Sources Support – you don’t need a plugin any longer to use multiple data sources in your Grails app
• Database Migrations plugin – no need to do this manually with Liquibase

To me it looks like the best Grails version ever. Hopefully it doesn’t come with too many new bugs ;-)