Archive for February 20th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-07)

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

The big news of the week was the 1.3.7 release of Grails. This was a fairly small release with some important fixes, and will most likely be the last 1.3.x release. Groovy 1.7.8 and 1.8 RC1 were also released, so there’s a lot of interesting stuff to look at there too.

The Spring I/O conference in Madrid was also this week and judging from the tweets it was a great conference. Google Translate has been very helpful this week 🙂

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Translations of this post:

 Miscellaneous Items
 Plugins
 Interesting Tweets
 Jobs
 User groups and Conferences

Plugins

There were 6 new plugins released:

  • ajax-uploader version 0.2. Tag Library which implements Andrew Valum’s excellent file uploader
  • jquery-datatables version 1.7.5. Supplies jQuery DataTables plugin resources to avoid resource duplication and conflicts
  • spawn version 0.2. Allows you to specify a specific template for a domain class
  • spring-security-appinfo version 1.0. Provides a basic UI to view the security configuration
  • transactional-controller version 0.1. Wraps controller actions in transactions (although my strong preference would be to move persistence logic to a transactional service method).
  • twitter4j version 0.1. Send and receive Twitter messages using the twitter4j library

There were also several updated plugins:

  • database-migration version 0.2. Official Grails plugin for database migrations
  • db-reverse-engineer version 0.3. Reverse-engineers a database to Grails domain classes.
  • extended-validation version 1.0.1. Provides partial validation of (groups) of fields, cascaded validation and instance validators for non-domain objects.
  • fixtures version 1.0.5. Load test data via a convenient DSL
  • grails-melody version 1.1. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
  • jms version 1.1. Makes it easy to both send and receive JMS messages
  • jquery-validation-ui version 1.2. Client Side Validation without writing JavaScript
  • mongodb version 1.0-M3. Aims to provide an object-mapping layer on top of MongoDB
  • nerderg-form-tags version 1.2. Bringing Readability, Convention, Consistency and CSS to form design
  • rabbitmq version 0.3.1. Integrates with Rabbit MQ messaging
  • rest version 0.6.1. Enables the usage of HTTPBuilder
  • riak version 1.0.0.M3. GORM for the Riak NoSQL datastore
  • spring-mobile version 0.2. Uses the Spring Mobile project to detect mobile devices
  • spring-security-acl version 1.1. ACL support for the Spring Security plugin
  • spring-security-cas version 1.0.2. Jasig CAS support for the Spring Security plugin
  • spring-security-ldap version 1.0.2. LDAP authentication support for the Spring Security plugin
  • spring-security-openid version 1.0.1. OpenID authentication support for the Spring Security plugin
  • springcache version 1.3.1. Caches Spring bean methods and page fragments generated by Grails controllers
  • ulc version 0.3.3. Provides access to the Canoo UltraLightClient (ULC) RIA kit
  • weceem version 1.0-M2. A content management system
  • weceem-spring-security version 1.0. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

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