Shed the weight with Groovlets
Read Andy's latest article at JavaWorld: Shed the weight with Groovlets
Not all web applications require a full stack framework. In those instances, there is an alternative:
Groovlets. Groovlet’s are
simply servlets
without the structure of servlets. That is, you can write simple Groovy scripts and have them execute within the
context of a servlet; plus, your script has access to the normal objects you’ve come to love when coding
servlets — ServletRequest, ServletResponse, ServletContext, etc.