January 24, 2009

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.