I do a lot of research for my customers. I document most of the results of this work here. This way I hope it is not only usefull for me but also for people that are interested. I hope it can help you.
Grails web flow
This is a dead simple example for starting with grails web flow
I was using maven 2 but got a little bit tired with buggy plugins and the intrusive way of doing, so I looked for another solution on dependenct management. I found Ivy.
This weekend I tried JAXB and it struck me that sometimes Java is really getting simpler. Because within twenty minutes my basic examples were up and running.