I recently wrote a gift list management site for my family using Grails. Grails made it simple, the entire site was done in less than a week. That was version 1 of the site. In version 2 of the site, I rewrote the Ajax’d GSP’s using Flex 3, since I spent over 16 frustrating hours [...]

This is an overview of building an Ajax search form using Grails and jQuery. Grails makes generating JSON from domain objects and collections objects extremely simple. jQuery and jQuery-jtemplates is an easy way to parse JSON and render predefined HTML templates with the results, rather than having to parse JSON and generate HTML on the [...]