I don't think so. Again, it's only me, but did you try Spring/Hibernate with annotations? There is really not much sense for an experienced Java developer to jump into Groovy. I do not see it, really. Scala is good, as a language. Syntax is horrible, but some people adore it. ;-) Why Groovy? It's been around for a while. Sometimes it's all about momentum. I have doubts it will get another chance to shine with SpringSource or anything else. Just too many other options available around. Why not Jython/Django? Why not Jruby/rails? Still Scala/Lift. It's all in JVM.