When Groovy has grown up to version 2, it has gained a lot of brand new features and improvements in areas of productivity and security. Groovy now provides the ability to statically type check and statically compile your Groovy code for robustness and performance. This is very useful when you don't need Groovy's dynamic features, or simply want to speed up performance of your scripts.
I had an issue with deploying my Grails project to Cloud Foundry with using cloudfoundry-grails-plugin. My application was using Tomcat 7 unlike Cloud Foundry, which use Tomcat 6. In other words, to have a Grails application with Tomcat 7 run, I had to deploy the entire Tomcat 7 directory, but before it should be slightly reconfigured.
I've faced a problem with unit testing web flow controllers
There's an existings WebFlowUnitTestMixin for unit testing webflow in GDK, but no word on how to use it in the latest Grails 2.2.0 official documentation.
Portlets are pluggable user interface software components that are managed and displayed in a web portal. They produce fragments of markup code that are aggregated into a portal.
There are two specifications of portlets exist nowadays, they are JSR-168 (Java Portlet Api) and JSR-286 (Java Portlet Api 2.0).