Development is fun again with nodejs

Being a longtime Java developer, back from when servlets where cool and Struts was making MVC popular among web devs, I always try to find new and more productive ways to deliver software within the Java ecosystem.

Recently I turned to Grails and delivered several projects with it. When developing with Grails you can use the power and the expressiveness of Groovy to write compact, elegant, fluent and readable code.
The downside is that Grails is huge:

1. even the most simple Grails apps will weigh in the 40MB range
2. compilation, test and building takes a long time (minutes, actually) even in recent versions
3. it is (fairly) complex, but that I can understand because it does so much
4. it will consume a huge chunk of you app server memory when deployed

I have been using Grails as the backend for Mappu too, initially just because I wanted to bootstrap the project quickly and Grails is simply perfect for that. But as time passed I started to find Grails too heavy for a simple REST API. I am currently running the demo on the smallest Rackspace server and it's constantly swapping. It's not slow, but it could be better.

3 new features that I wish were in OpenNMS 2.0

As a long time OpenNMS user I've been often impressed with its extensibility and the completeness of its feature set. There is support for lots of data collection techniques: from the old school snmp exec extensions, to the http poller, from the JDBC poller to the XML poller and many others that I probably forgot to mention.

Supporting new probes is therefore just a matter of how, not if , it can be done. And with new monitoring tools popping up every day this is clearly good as it allows OpenNMS to keep up with the competition.
So the present looks bright, but what about the future? With OpenNMS 2.0 not yet on the radar I thought I could put together a list of features I would love to have. What do you think of them?