I have to admit, that I’m quite enthusiastic about new technologies, especially RIA (Rich Internet Applications) solutions. Recently I was going to give a try to JavaFX and Adobe Flex. And since I’m a big fan of Grails – my goal was to connect these two technologies.

My last article about simple Grails application showed, that for quick development Grails are one of top choices. Inspired by some folks writing all around the web, that Grails plus GAE are even faster web-development solutions, I’ve decided to give it a try. And that’s where troubles came up.

In our last article about Grails we promised some tutorial showing how easy and simple it is to create web application in this framework. So – let’s do it!

From this place you can download project files ready-to-use.

In this little ‘How-To’ I’m going to use NetBeans, since it has an excellent support for Grails applications. First of all – let’s create new Grails project: ‘File’ -> ‘New Project’ -> ‘Groovy’ -> ‘Grails Application’. NetBeans will ask for a folder placement of our newly created project and will automaticly build whole project folder structure for us. Actually, we can even run our project right now – and we can see in the browser that it works.