So I have just started to look at Groovy to see what the hype is about. It is 
interesting to see what appears to be pretty much a dynamically typed version 
of Java. Why this is happening alone has me wondering.

I have worked with some large scale projects awhile ago that were done in Perl 
and TCL. I have not had the the pleasure to work with Python, PHP, Ruby etc. 
but from what I have noticed is that when these projects grow considerably and 
more and more people start delving into the code it can become a bit 
nightmarish to maintain.

That being said now let me come back to using Seam with Groovy. What does this 
really buy me? I understand you can make hot deployments by copying the files 
into a directory without compilation and the next load will make your changes 
visible. So beyond that is there anything I'm missing?
I mean the deployment through using NB for me is pretty quick and I get amazing 
insight and support from the IDE which I don't have with scripting languages.

Looking at some blogs people seem to be raving over things such as closures and 
automatic implied getter/setter operations along with some other syntax related 
suger. 

So once again back to Seam. I mean if I use Groovy aren't I still making use of 
Facelets and JSF components such as RichFaces or is this gone and replaced by 
GSP and Groovlets as I think they are calling them.

Although new technology can be exciting in terms of learning something new I 
really dislike it when now I have to really delve into things to see if this 
actually gives me something that I really need and will make my company and 
myself more productive. I mean if this is the case then I'm all for it. If not 
then am I not wasting my time with the exception that for myself personally I 
have learned yet another new technology framework?

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