Sky.com Utilizes SpringSource Supported Groovy and Grails for Developer Productivity

SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc., and a specialist in Java application infrastructure and management, announced that U.K. entertainment and communications company Sky.com has increased the productivity of its web development team by 400 percent using Groovy and Grails.

SpringSource is the company behind Groovy and Grails technologies. Groovy and Grails provide a streamlined development framework, and like other SpringSource-supported products, they help companies build, run and manage Java applications.

Sky.com said its developers rely on a content management system (CMS) to constantly update its home page with articles, images, videos, feeds and navigation to other Sky websites. Prior to using Groovy and Grails for its homepage CMS, Sky ran into limitations with the existing CMS solution because of the complexity of the technology and the time it took for developers to publish new pages.

"Groovy is so much simpler to use than other technologies which makes it easier to get applications up and running faster," said Jon Mullen, Sky.com ScrumMaster. "With Groovy and Grails, we are able to release new applications into production weekly, as compared to every six weeks with our previous tools."

"Groovy and Grails enables developers to be more productive because the language is dynamic and the application architecture uses the most popular and well established components like Spring," said Guillaume Laforge, staff engineer and head of Groovy development at SpringSource, a division of VMware. "Developer productivity, faster time to market and the flexibility to adapt applications to new business needs has helped to drive the rapidly increasing adoption of both Groovy and Grails."

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