Custom Implementations of GORM

I just thought I would highlight once again what we are doing with Grails on the data layer. The Grails Data Mapping project is essentially where all new data work is happening with Grails.

It is divided into two parts:

A core API for developers to implement to provide CRUD and querying onto any datastore imaginable
A GORM layer that operates on top of this core API and provides the meta-programming and AST transformation logic for you

Developers only have to implement step part one and part two comes for free. This is a big benefit, because previously custom implementations of GORM included their own meta-programming and/or AST transformation layer. This is no longer necessary.

Checkout the developer guide that I put together which shows how you can implement GORM on top of any datastore you fancy (including your own REST API).