Oracle anticipates it can leverage the JPA and AJAX contributions to attract developers to its technology stack, which features an application server and related offerings in areas such as security and data binding.

With Grails, Oracle will assist with this project, which is an open source Web application framework that leverages the Groovy scripting language. Groovy runs natively on a Java Virtual Machine rather than requiring a special C run time environment, according to Oracle. Grails is intended to intended to boost productivity in building simple Web applications.