SAN MATEO, UAS: SpringSource, the leader in enterprise Java and the company behind Groovy and Grails technologies has announced that Aegeon, a Web 2.0 company focused on enterprise social software solutions, is using Groovy and Grails to build Spaceo.us, the company's knowledge management platform.

"The original plan was to generate only the prototype in Groovy and Grails, and then slowly migrate to pure Java for the development of the actual product," said Rob James, CTO of Aegeon. "But we realized there was no need to switch to Java, and in fact it would have slowed down our process. If we had built our prototype in Java, we would have only been able to deliver a quarter to a third of the functionality we produced using Groovy and Grails."

Grails is an advanced and innovative web-application framework based on Groovy that enables IT teams to establish fast development cycles through agile methodologies.

Groovy is the most popular alternative languages for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Groovy and Grails made it easy for Aegeon designers to better understand their code and quickly implement changes, rather than having to pass every task to the Java development team. Consequently, Aegeon was able to build a better user interface and improve the overall user experience.

"Groovy and Grails have become a foundation in development technology, providing a clear and simple workflow," says Graeme Rocher, head of Grails development for SpringSource.

"SpringSource is pleased that Aegeon is able to stay ahead of the competition using Groovy and Grails' technologies to deliver improved developer productivity while significantly cutting costs," added Rocher.

Groovy and Grails are among the most popular open source application infrastructure solutions in the world along with Spring, the de facto standard programming model for enterprise Java applications. SpringSource is the company behind all of these technologies.