> There are a few things that Grails does very differently, partly due to it being built on top of Spring and Hibernate. Back in 2005 Grails didn't add much to

> There are a few things that Grails does very differently, partly due to it being built on top of Spring and Hibernate. Back in 2005 Grails didn't add much to Groovy, Spring, or Hibernate. It was just a thin wrapper around software products from other companies (e.g. SpringSource, JBoss) so the training consultant behind it all could muscle in on the training and consultancy markets for their products. In 2006 Grails was renamed and promoted as _Groovy on Grails_ to sound like _Ruby on Rails_. He started a company, G2One Inc, in 2007 and quickly shopped it around among the various companies whose products he bundled, successfully fooling SpringSource into buying it 12 mths later.