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This Week in Grails (2013-11)

Monday, March 18th, 2013

Graeme has been working on adding more asynchronous support for Grails 2.3, with additional controller features and new support for async GORM. Check out the initial documentation.

You can now register for GR8Conf EU at the “early bird” rates – be sure to get your tickets before the prices go up. They have announced the speaker lineup, and they are looking for sponsors. You can also check out their Laynrd page.

Registration for GR8Conf US is also open, and you have until the end of the week to get your ticket at the “Door Buster” rate.

The SpringOne 2GX call for papers call for papers is open, so submit a talk if you’re interested in speaking there in September. If you want to attend, register here before their prices go up.


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Plugins

There was one new plugin released:

and 11 updated plugins:

  • coffeescript-resources version 0.3.7. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
  • console-enhancements version 1.0. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
  • cxf-client version 1.5.2. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
  • geasyui version 0.6. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
  • goblin version 0.3.3. A browser game framework
  • gson version 1.1. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
  • health-control version 0.2. Automated control of services, resources and other things that might fail from time to time
  • plastic-criteria version 0.7. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.13. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M20. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
  • webflow version 2.0.8. Integrates Spring Web Flow with Grails

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This Week in Grails (2013-10)

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

The speaker lineup for GR8Conf US has been announced, and a partial list of speakers have been announced for GR8Conf EU. Be sure to get your tickets now before the prices go up.

I released a new plugin this week that adds Dropwizard support for Grails. Check out the introductory blog post for usage information and a test project.


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Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

  • dropwizard version 0.1. Adds support for Dropwizard
  • file-server version 0.1. Serves files from any directories on disk
  • health-control version 0.1. Automated control of services, resources and other things that might fail from time to time

and 14 updated plugins:

  • aws-sdk version 1.3.33. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
  • bootstrap-crumbs version 1.0.2. Provide simple breadcrumb functionality using the twitter bootstrap library
  • coffeescript-compiler version 0.9.2. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
  • cxf-client version 1.5.1. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
  • gson version 1.0.1. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
  • hd-image-utils version 0.4. High quality image manipulation plugin for scaling and cropping images. Uses the pure Java java-image-scaling library
  • ic-alendar version 0.3.5. Export event data in the iCalendar format
  • jesque version 0.6.0. Groovier approach to using jesque
  • kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.9.6. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
  • mongodb version 1.2.0. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
  • recaptcha version 0.6.2. Integrates ReCaptcha and Mailhide services
  • resources version 1.2. A resource management and processing framework
  • sharding version 0.9. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
  • wslite version 0.7.2.0. Integrates the https://github.com/jwagenleitner/groovy-wslite library

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This Week in Grails (2013-09)

Wednesday, March 06th, 2013

We released Grails 2.1.4 and 2.2.1 this week; they are primarily bug fix releases.

Registration for GR8Conf Europe 2013 is now open. Be sure to sign up soon while the prices are very low.

I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about Dropwizard as a framework for creating REST services. I thought it would be interesting to integrate it with Grails, but it ended up being a lot more work than I expected since the two approaches are very different, and very opinionated. I have an initial implementation available of a plugin and will add some docs and a sample application soon.


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Plugins

There was one new plugin released:

and 7 updated plugins:

  • coffeescript-compiler version 0.8.1. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
  • geasyui version 0.4. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
  • jquery-validation-ui version 1.4.2. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
  • kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.9.5b. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
  • localizations version 1.4.4.10. Store i18n strings in a database
  • recaptcha version 0.6.0. Integrates ReCaptcha and Mailhide services
  • redis version 1.3.3. Provides integration with a Redis datastore

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This Week in Grails (2013-08)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Rob Fletcher released a new plugin this week for JSON serialization/deserialization using Google’s Gson library.

SpringOne 2GX 2013 has been announced, and it will be September 9-12 in Santa Clara, CA.

Tomas Lin created an interesting looking Grails template project on GitHub that is pre-configured for testing.


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Plugins

There were 5 new plugins released:

  • casper-runner version 0.2. Runs functional CapserJS tests
  • goblin version 0.3.2. A browser game framework
  • gson version 1.0. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
  • simple-suggestions version 0.1. Suggestion service to provide suggestions to auto complete controls
  • geasyui version 0.3. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs

and 12 updated plugins:

  • aws-sdk version 1.3.32. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
  • codenarc version 0.18.1. Static code analysis for Groovy
  • dumbster version 0.2. Adds support for the Dumbster SMTP server for testing
  • improx version 0.2. Use interactive mode from other process via TCP
  • jetty version 2.0.3. Makes Jetty the development time container
  • jquery-validation-ui version 1.4.1. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
  • kickstart-with-bootstrap version 0.9.2. Start your project with a good looking frontend, with adapted scaffolding templates for standard CRUD pages using Twitter Bootstrap
  • less-resources version 1.3.3.1. Compile .less files into .css files
  • localizations version 1.4.4.9. Store i18n strings in a database
  • plastic-criteria version 0.6. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
  • release version 2.2.1. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
  • vaadin version 1.7.1. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration

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This Week in Grails (2013-07)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

The Groovy team announced three Groovy releases this week.

Check out this interview with Jeff Brown on Grails 2 and Groovy.

Several more Greach videos were released this week. Check out the sessions page and click through to each one to view its video.

Rob Fletcher announced this week that he will no longer be supporting a few of his plugins.

Stéphane Maldini suggested a new grails.org theme.

Programming Grails went to “production” this week, so it should be in print in a month or so.


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Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

  • dumbster version 0.1. Adds support for the Dumbster SMTP server for testing
  • geasyui version 0.2. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
  • recaptcha-spring-security version 0.1. Using recaptcha with spring security core for brute force defender

and 11 updated plugins:

  • build-test-data version 2.0.4. Enables the easy creation of test data by automatic inspection of constraints
  • coffeescript-compiler version 0.7. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
  • cookie-session version 2.0.7. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
  • easygrid version 1.3.0. Provides a convenient and agile way of defining Data Grids
  • ember-templates-precompiler version 0.4.0. Precompiles EmberJS powered Handlebars templates
  • feature-switch version 0.7. Allows turning on and off of features
  • pretty-time version 2.1.3.Final-1.0.1. Displays human readable, relative timestamps
  • remote-pagination version 0.4.2. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
  • spreedly version 0.1.7. Provides access to the Spreedly online payment service API
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.12.2. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • underscore version 1.4.4. Simple plugin wrapper for useful Underscore.js library

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This Week in Grails (2013-06)

Monday, February 11th, 2013

Several videos from Greach 2013 are now available on their YouTube channel.

Marc Palmer has announced that he will no longer be supporting any of his plugins (at least not for free). We’re looking into what makes the most sense for moving forward, especially for the more popular plugins like resources. Several of them will be moved to shared Github repos so the community can easily contribute. Be sure to check out his Kickstarter campaign and contribute so the outstanding issues in the resources plugin can get fixed.

There are two excellent looking Grails training opportunities coming up in the next few months. One starts this week and is a 10-week seminar at UC Berkeley. The other is a 2-day seminar in Boston April 22nd – 23rd.

The Groovy team is looking into updating the Groovy documentation and web site.

Check out these two interesting Groovy wiki pages: Advanced compiler configuration and Meta-annotations.

Season 2 of the Spanish-language Podcast de GrailsMX is starting soon. It sure would be cool to have an English-language Groovy and Grails podcast 😉


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Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 11 updated plugins:

  • aws-sdk version 1.3.30. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
  • cookie-session version 2.0.6. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
  • extjs4 version 4.0.7.1. Provides Ext JS 4 resources
  • jquery version 1.9.1. Integrates jQuery
  • routing version 1.2.3. Send and route messages to a wide variety of destination endpoints directly from your Controllers and Services using Camel
  • sham version 0.3. Uses the sham data generation library to generate test/demo data
  • sharding version 0.7. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
  • simple-blog version 0.3. Adds a simple blog interface to an application
  • spring-batch version 1.0.RC2. Provides the Spring Batch framework and convention based Jobs
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.12. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • twitter-bootstrap version 2.3.0. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files

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This Week in Grails (2013-05)

Thursday, February 07th, 2013

Check out Cedric Champeau’s detailed overview of how to work with invokedynamic in Groovy.

Do you want Cedric to write a book on Groovy in French? If so, retweet this to let him know.

There is only about one week left to submit talks for the EU and US GR8Conf conferences – the deadline is February 15th.


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Plugins

There were no new plugins but 8 updated plugins:

  • coffeescript-resources version 0.3.5. Create coffeescript modules that automatically compiles on every file change with jCoffeeScript
  • cxf version 1.1.0. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
  • excel-export version 0.1.4. Export data in Excel (xlsx) format using Apache POI
  • google-visualization version 0.6.1. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
  • greenmail version 1.3.4. Provides a wrapper around GreenMail and provides a view that displays ‘sent’ messages – useful for testing
  • gvps version 0.4. Host, manage and display video assets, and convert standard movie formats to the Flash movie format FLV
  • localizations version 1.4.4.8. Store i18n strings in a database
  • uploadr version 0.6.1. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader

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This Week in Grails (2013-04)

Sunday, February 03rd, 2013

Greach was this week and it was great. It was my first time visiting Spain, so that was an added bonus. The Spanish Groovy and Grails community is apparently thriving, and the attendance was about the same as Groovy & Grails Exchange and GR8Conf, if not higher. There are already some blog posts up and several speakers have put their slides online:

The Groovy team released Groovy 2.1 this week (and made the announcement live during Cedric’s keynote at Greach). Groovy now has full support for invokedynamic, which promises huge performance increases. Note that the 2.1 release notes currently don’t describe how to use the “indy” jars; see the 2.0 release notes for that information.

Andre Steingress released a few blog posts describing some new features in 2.1:

Gradle 1.4 was released this week. There is a description of the plans for 1.5 here, and you can see a short video overview of the 1.4 highlights here.

Marc Palmer’s resources plugin Kickstarter is now live. Nearly everything you use for Grails development is free (except for IntelliJ Ultimate if that’s your IDE of choice) but real people do the work to provide you with Grails and the plugins and tools you use daily. It would be great if we were all paid to do this work (I’m very lucky that I am) but we’re not. The project us currently funded at 10% so contribute soon.

Cedric Champeau’s talk on type checking extensions at Greach was very interesting, and he’s added some documentation for the feature. Check out his slides and the video of the talk when it’s available.

There are only two weeks left to submit talks for the EU and US GR8Conf conferences – the deadline is February 15th.


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Plugins

There were no new plugins but 18 updated plugins:

  • audit-trail version 2.0.3. Adds created/updated audit fields to domain classes and updates them after a new insert or update
  • backbonejs version 0.9.10.3. Provides resources for Backbone.js http://backbonejs.org/
  • coffeescript-compiler version 0.6. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
  • cxf-client version 1.5.0. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
  • dojo version 1.6.1.16. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
  • ember-templates-precompiler version 0.3.0. Precompiles EmberJS powered Handlebars templates
  • events-si version 1.0.M5. Standard Events system for Grails implementation; it is a Spring Integration implementation and uses its artefacts to map listeners, senders and events messages
  • feature-switch version 0.6. Allows turning on and off of features
  • flash-helper version 0.9.5. Simplifies and standardizes the process of adding/reading messages in the flash scope
  • font-awesome-resources version 3.0. Integrates the Font Awesome icon set
  • html5-mobile-scaffolding version 0.5. Scaffolds HTML5 mobile application using jQuery mobile in a single page
  • jetty version 2.0.2. Makes Jetty the development time container
  • lesscss-resources version 1.3.1. Optimises the use of http://www.lesscss.org css files, compiling .less files into their .css counterprt, and place the css into the processing chain to be available to the other resource plugin features
  • quartz2 version 2.1.6.2. Integration with Quartz 2 framework from quartz-scheduler.org
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.11. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • underscore version 1.4.3. Simple plugin wrapper for useful Underscore.js library
  • vaadin version 1.7.0-rc2. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
  • yammer-metrics version 2.1.2-4. Packages Coda Hale’s yammer metrics jars

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This Week in Grails (2013-03)

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

The Groovy team announced the second release candidate for Groovy 2.1.0 this week, and they’ve already released RC3 since then. This should be the final RC before 2.1.0 final.

The Griffon team released version 1.2.0 this week.

Marc Palmer is doing some interesting experiments with paid Grails plugin development, maintenance and documentation. He’s testing the waters with an e-book for the email-confirmation plugin, and is looking into how interested people are in a book on the resources plugin. And he should have a KickStarter campaign going soon to fund the development effort to clear the backlog of bugs and feature requests for the resources plugin. It’ll be interesting to see if the historically cheap Java-based community will be willing to dig into their wallets 🙂

Greach is this week, it will be Friday and Saturday in Madrid. Tickets are still available. Two tracks, a great lineup of speakers, Madrid. What more could you ask for?

The call for papers for the two GR8Conf conferences ends in a few weeks on February 15th. Get those talk proposals submitted, here for the EU conference and here for the US conference.


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Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

  • coffeescript-compiler version 0.5. Compiles .coffee source files into .js files
  • excel-export version 0.1.3. Export data in Excel (xlsx) format using Apache POI
  • hsoy-templates version 0.3. Adds support for Hsoy Templates (Google Closure Templates with HAML syntax)

and 21 updated plugins:

  • airbrake version 0.9.2. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
  • akka version 0.6.2. Akka actors integration from Groovy and Java, in a Servlet 3.x environment
  • asynchronous-mail version 1.0-RC3. Send email asynchronously by storing them in the database and sending with a Quartz job
  • atmosphere version 1.1.0.beta2. Provides integration with the Atmosphere project, a portable AjaxPush/Comet and WebSocket framework
  • easygrid version 1.2.1. Provides a convenient and agile way of defining Data Grids
  • email-confirmation version 2.0.8. Sends an email to a user with a link to click to confirm site registration
  • events-push version 1.0.M7. A client-side event bus based on the portable push library Atmosphere that propagates events from the server-side event bus to the browser
  • feature-switch version 0.5. Allows turning on and off of features
  • functional-test-development version 0.9.4. Installs a script, develop-functional-tests, that you can use to develop your functional tests more conveniently
  • handlebars-resources version 0.3.5. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
  • jquery version 1.9.0. Integrates jQuery
  • mail-on-exception version 0.1.1. Allows one to specify an email address where all frontend exceptions will be sent
  • newrelic version 0.6. Adds the NewRelic Real User Monitoring feature to your GSP pages
  • plastic-criteria version 0.5. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
  • platform-core version 1.0.RC5. Provides functionality for plugins to use to achieve greater integration with each other and with applications
  • raven version 0.5.3. Sentry Client for Grails
  • remote-control version 1.4. Execute code inside a remote Grails application
  • sanitizer version 0.8.0. Sanitizes markup(HTML, XHTML, CSS) using OWASP AntiSamy Filters
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.10.4. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • vaadin version 1.7.0-rc1. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
  • xwiki-rendering version 1.0-RC2. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework

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This Week in Grails (2013-02)

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

Graeme wrote about the new Aether-based depedency resolution approach in 2.3. Aether is missing a few features that Ivy has but makes up for that in several ways, in particular by being significantly faster.

The Groovy team released an RC of Groovy 2.1. Lots of cool stuff there, the most interesting to me being support for invokedynamic. This promises to bring huge performance increases without any annotations or code changes (as long as you’re using a JDK version that supports it).


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Plugins

There were no new plugins released but 11 updated:

  • asynchronous-mail version 1.0-RC1. Send email asynchronously by storing them in the database and sending with a Quartz job
  • clover version 3.1.10.1. Integrates the Clover code coverage tool
  • cookie-session version 2.0.3. Allows you to store session data in a cookie
  • cucumber version 0.8.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
  • easygrid version 1.1.0. Provides a convenient and agile way of defining Data Grids
  • kissmetrics version 0.2.0. Allows your Grails application to use KISSmetrics APIs
  • localizations version 1.4.4.7. Store i18n strings in a database
  • quartz version 1.0-RC5. Schedules jobs to be executed with a specified interval or cron expression using the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
  • remote-pagination version 0.4.1. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
  • slug-generator version 0.2. Generates unique slugs for String properties, for example to generate unique ‘nice’ urls for access to domain objects
  • vero version 0.2.0. Allows your Grails application to use Vero APIs

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