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Paul Krill, InfoWorld: [Oracle] will also announce intentions to contribute engineering resources to the open source Grails project.

With Grails, Oracle will assist with this project, which is an open source Web application framework that leverages the Groovy scripting language. Groovy runs natively on a Java Virtual Machine rather than requiring a special C run time environment, according to Oracle. Grails is intended to boost productivity in building simple Web applications.

It does look like Grails is getting a lot of attention recently. I first learned about Grails 70 days ago on this Graeme Rocher Blog, where I left this comment, which prompted this follow up and the ensuing debate comparing the merits and facilities of BeanShell and Groovy.

I did find out this tidbit about Grails that I didn't know before yesterday when I visited the Grails home page:

Graeme Rocher: Having been contacted by David Heinemeier Hansson, project lead and original creator of Ruby on Rails, he has requested that we no longer use the "on Rails" suffix or the name "Groovy on Rails". So out of respect for David and not wanting to upset our colleagues within the Ruby community we shall oblige and Groovy on Rails will now simply be known as Grails.