About Gaelyk
Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java.
- Gaelyk lets you deploy small applications on Google App Engine Java.
- Gaelyk gives you the choice to use Groovy for developing your applications.
- Gaelyk builds on Groovlets. and the Groovy template servlet to add a few niceties on top of the GAE SDK APIs.
- Gaelyk allows you to cleanly seperate your views with Groovy templates and your actions in Groovlets.
You can:
- download Gaelyk in the download area,
- learn how to create Gaelyk applications by reading the tutorial,
- and participate in the community.
Frequently Asked Question
Where does the name come from?
The name Gaelyk is a special spelling of the word "gaelic". The first three letters obviously make reference to the Google App Engine acronym (GAE), while the rest of the spelling tries to make the name a bit more unique in terms of search engine results, as well as recall its Groovy nature by using the letter Y.
Who's behind Gaelyk?
Gaelyk is a little pet project started by Marcel Overdijk and Guillaume Laforge to further simplify the writing of small Groovy applications to be deployed on Google's App Engine cloud. At the time of the creation of the project, Grails was not yet ported to App Engine, and we felt a streamlined toolkit would be interesting. For bigger applications, you should be considering Grails though, but for little applications, Gaelyk is ideal!
What is the license of Gaelyk?
Gaelyk is Open Source and is released under the Apache License (ASL 2).
Where can I find the source code?
The source code of Gaelyk is hosted by Github
How can I contribute?
If you're interested in participating in the project, providing patches, reporting bugs, writing documentation, and more, please have a look at our community section.