prime-mvc VS Grails

Prime MVC is a Model View Controller written in Java and licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

My company's product is primarily written in Java. It's a web based auth system, fwiw.

I don't write too much code nowadays, but read a lot. From what I can see, here's the stack:

* intellij for an ide (with tons of plugins)

* prime MVC (https://github.com/prime-framework/prime-mvc) for the framework

* mybatis for SQL/queries

* java 17

I've also used dropwizard and spring. If it was a greenfield development with emphasis on developer productivity, I'd go with spring any day. Big dev community, tons of doco, a solution for any problem if you can find it.

And frameworks like Grails build conventions and helpers on top of Spring.

I don't have any direct experience and am only suggesting it because you mentioned RoR...But Grails (https://grails.org/) is basically the JVM version of RoR (Groovy on Rails -> Grails).

Grails - Spring under the hood. Much less boilerplate. Opinionated, which helps keep things consistent. Uses Spring-Security plugin for authentication.

Also, Grails, which a Rails like framework build on Groovy, a JVM scripting language.

Any JVM language to the rescue here? There’s one, but it’s not the one you’re thinking about. In a sign that this index may not accurately reflect our project reality, Groovy saw a meteoric rise of 0.86% to 1.04% last year! That was good for place 17. Yep, Groovy! Are people writing Gradle plugins in Groovy? Or is Grails having a resurgence? I’m as baffled as you are.