This short chapter introduces various useful frameworks within the Groovy ecosystem. Some of these will be described more fully in later chapters.
Web and UI Frameworks
The following are web and user-interface frameworks that are built on top of Groovy, or where Groovy is supported.
Grails 1
Web-framework inspired by Ruby-on-Rails; has at least 800 plugins.
Griffon 2
Swing UI command-line very similar to Grails: create-app cool -archetype=jumpstart
vert.x 3
A framework for asynchronous application development. Not strictly a Groovy project, but you can use it. It's currently an Eclipse Foundation project4.
