Grails supports the creation of views using either JavaServer Pages (JSP) or Groovy Server Pages (GSP). This section describes how to provide a model to views. For a more complete reference on see the references.

Syntactically GSP and JSP are very similar the main difference being that code within scriptlets is in Groovy not Java! Grails uses a convention mechanism to delegate to an appropriate view. For example an action called list will delegate to a "list" view

The corresponding view for the above action would need to be placed in the "grails-app/views/book" directory with the name "list.jsp" or "list.gsp". The example below is in GSP: