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He went on to discuss an Amazon WS (EC2, S3 et al) plugin that supports easy access to Amazon services like messaging, storage and more. It does not support deployment to Amazon. He went on to discuss ways to use Groovy config files to access properties configured in Amazon BeanStalk to facilitate quick deployment to Amazon using BeanStalk.
Then he spoke about Google App Engine support. There is a GAE Grails Plugin, and you can deploy to GAE. But there is some work that needs to be done to GORM to support Google's flavor of JPA. The deployment to that platform needs some work.
Tangentially he mentioned that there is work that needs to happen on GORM's JPA support in general. The current GORM JPA adaptor supports JPA 1.0. It needs to be updated to support JPA 2.0. By supporting JPA 2.0, in effect, GORM would support a lot more persistence solutions that are built on top of JPA 2.0.
InfoQ: What are the major changes to GORM? and is GORM a standalone project? Could I use GORM with a non-Grails project?
Source: InfoQ.com