Grails into the cloud

1. Retrospective

1.1. Great year for Grails

1.2. High profile sites

1.3. STS

2. 1.2

2.1. Performance

2.1.1. Removed 2-phase parsing for SiteMesh

2.1.2. 2-3 times better throughput

2.2. Dependency Resolution

2.2.1. Ivy Based DSL

2.3. Modularity with plugins

2.4. Pluggable Test Frameworks

2.5. Named Queries, Global Constraints, Mappings

2.6. GSP Precompilation