I'd contend that building a Web app in Groovy on Grails is where beginners should start.<br><br>Grails is one (not several competing) Web Framework, Groovy is Java and J2EE compliant, yet a scripting language with closures and implicit parallel programming support. Together they give you scripting access to all the J2EE components developed over the past decade while hiding the crappy verboseness of XML and Java.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:36 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arocker@vex.net">arocker@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bill Stephenson <<a href="mailto:bills@ezinvoice.com">bills@ezinvoice.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
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</div><div class="im">>> It would seem that right now, when "Web Apps" are really coming into<br>
>> their own, CGI scripts written in Perl would be the place that<br>
>> "Beginners" would start looking.<br>
>><br>
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</div>But CGI is sooo '90s, and even Web apps are passe now; it's all smartphones.<br>
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