Improve the expressiveness of a typical Intranet application by using Groovy DSL (Domain-Specific Languages).

DSLs are statically typed, most errors are detected during the development cycle, and the IDE can autocomplete code more easily.

The Taack Framework also allows shortening usual application code by avoiding GSPs and managing common operations (filter, save, show).

The Taack Framework depends on the Grails application framework. Grails brings the runtime context. The Grails infrastructure has the following characteristics:

In a web application, entry points are URLs. They are called actions in Grails terminology.

Actions are responsible for updating the browser state following user events such as clicks, key presses, and mouse movements.

The Taack Framework is not a fully AJAX framework; rather, it is mostly an old-school framework that generates complete pages on the server but also has the capability of updating a portion of a page using AJAX.

This approach helps keep the browser’s internal state minimal. On the server side, all actions are stateless. On the browser side, the stack of modal windows and their layouts, defined by blocks, are stored to manage content updates.