Archive for January 23rd, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-03)

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

This week was another good one for Groovy and Grails-related items, especially the job listings which do seem to be picking up. I’ve added a subsection with keyword search links for a few job sites and also a link to the @SpringSourceJob Twitter feed (Grails jobs are quite rare but we are hiring for various interesting positions).

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 2 new plugins released:

feature-flipper version 0.1. Provides a mechanism to turn features on and off. It is inspired by Flikr’s ‘flipping out’ work in this space to do the same, and the implementation is quite similar.
jalarms version 0.1. Send application notifications using a wide range of protocols via JAlarms

There were also several updated plugins:

aws version 0.2. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
activemq version 0.2.1. Embeds ActiveMQ for messaging
ajaxflow version 0.1.19. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
barcode4j version 0.2.1. Generates barcodes using http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/
cassandra version 0.7.0.20110120.1. Provides access to Cassandra (not a GORM layer)
dbunit-operator version 1.5. Create initial data with the help of DbUnit
export version 0.8. Export domain objects to a variety of formats (CSV, Excel, ODS, PDF, RTF and XML)
external-config version 2.0. Provides easy and consistent facility to have externalized configuration files
fixtures version 1.0.3. Load test data via a convenient DSL
gdsflex version 0.8.5. Provides integration between Grails and Adobe Flex using Granite Data Services
grom version 0.2.2. Sends notifications on Windows, Linux, and Mac
infinispan version 0.3.8. Adds support for the JBoss Infinispan distributed cache
spreedly version 0.1.5. Provides access to the Spreedly online payment service API
spring-security-core version 1.1. The official Grails security plugin; integrates with Spring Security
weceem-spring-security version 1.0-RC3. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication

Interesting Tweets

@harjinder: Thanks to #codemash peoples’ tweets, I started looking at Grails Framework.
@thorntech: Love #grails. Rolled out 2 production apps today. One is driving the mobile website of a major US tax prep Co. Thx @wangjammer5 for the help
@dokeeffe: Paying around with #grails. Wrote a small app. An rss and atom news feed aggregator for twitter http://jackdaw.me/
@chochosmx: Muy buena impresión me dejó el ver lo sencillo que es hacer plugins para Grails. Qué buena arquitectura. #hgmx1 #jAlarms
@aalmiray: #hackergarten delivers once more! grails-activemq 0.2 and grails-jalarms 0.1 released #hgmx1
@finneycanhelp: cool #grails ! grails test-app -rerun “..re-run failed tests use the -rerun flag” http://grails.org/doc/latest/
@graemerocher: First cut of the GORM to JPA transformer http://bit.ly/e3ozjw Now to improve the GORM-JPA plugin… #grails #gorm
@tomaslin: params.list in grails is so awesome — http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/single.html#6.1.12%20Simple%20Type%20Converters
@nusairat: dont forget … there is also a #grails console as well as a #groovy console. AWESOME way to test your db and smaller items
@skurt: groovy is really groovy, doing something with eval.x() #grails #groovy
@jesseriggins: Unit testing saves me again #grails #groovy
@danklynn: Amazon “Elastic Beanstalk” looks awesome! Auto-deploy and scale your #grails app? http://bit.ly/idfIxM
@SkillBuildersUS: I uploaded a YouTube video — Groovy And Grails for Sunguard Banner Users http://youtu.be/MI4Ml2iuFG4?a
@SkillBuildersUS: I uploaded a YouTube video — Groovy & Grails Sungard Short.m4v http://youtu.be/M7RNHE9xjL8?a
@ldaley: Auto update of SNAPSHOT Grails plugins working well, will be a new feature in Grails 1.4.
@berngp: Is there a way to donate #beerpoints to a given #grails committer? There is some Aussie that is just pounding tickets all over the place.
@krazyimran: I played with Amazon ElasticBeanStalk last night and it is awesome…deployed a grails app using Amazon RDS and it took all of 10 minutes. …
@HamletDRC: Grails CodeNarc plugin updated to 0.12 http://is.gd/r7djho “grails install-plugin codenarc && grails codenarc” and you’re done!