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SpringSource acquires Grails and Groovy developer G2One


By Alex Handy
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November 12, 2008 —  Rod Johnson, founder and CEO of SpringSource, has much better luck than King Arthur had in finding his grail. SpringSource announced on Monday the acquisition of G2One, even though it has owned the makers of the Grails framework since October. Johnson called the combination of his Spring company with the Groovy and Grails projects a match made in heaven.

Johnson said that there were two major factors that contributed to the decision to buy G2One. The first was the enormous growth Johnson said he's seen in the Groovy community during the last quarter. Groovy is the dynamic language designed for Java users; it lives in a Java runtime and can reference Java resources directly in-line.

But perhaps even more enticing than the popular community was the closeness of G2One's Grails framework to Spring. Grails is so named after the Ruby on Rails framework, though here the focus is on Groovy as the programming language.

“Grails is built on Spring,” said Johnson. “At any point you can jump out into Java and get the full power of Spring. It was the perfect add-on to our stack. Grails leverages the Groovy programming language. It has the closest relationship to Java of all the dynamic languages. You can extend Java classes in Groovy, and vice versa. It's more efficient than most other languages on the JVM."

G2One was founded by the people behind the Grails and Groovy projects. In 2007, Guillaume Laforge, Graeme Rocher and Alex Tkachman created the company to take advantage of the then fledgling language shortly after it left the JCP.

Johnson has worked with two of the G2One founders in the past, he said. “Graeme is someone we've known for years,” said Johnson. “We both used to live in London and also, in the context of building Grails on top of Spring, there was quite a bit of technical interaction. Guillaume was involved in contributing some code to Spring 2.0 that helped make Spring be able to access services created with domain specific languages written in Groovy.”

And that's right where Johnson sees Groovy growing over the next few years: in domain-specific languages.

“We've seen interest really pick up in the last quarter,” said Johnson of Groovy. “We have seen significant interest in Grails, and also interest in using Groovy to author DSLs that companies can use in house. Groovy is a very interesting language for authoring DSLs.”




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