SpringSource buys Groovy-Grails backer G2One [Video]

SpringSource is betting that demand will grow for Groovy and Grails support and training

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SpringSource has bought G2One, which provides training and support for the increasingly popular open-source Groovy language and the related Web application development framework Grails. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

SpringSource is the company behind the Spring framework for enterprise Java development. Grails is based in part on Spring and, like the popular Ruby on Rails  Web framework, follows the philosophy of “convention over configuration” to boost developer productivity.

“In many cases, a developer will spend a large portion of their Web development in configuring their app and configuring different elements of the framework to work together,” wrote Web developer Brian Burridge in a blog post last year. “… Convention is built into Rails, to save the developer the time in redundantly making these decisions, and to ease the transition as a Rails developer moves …