Archive for May 15th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-19)

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Good news for STS users this week, 2.7.0.M1 was released and the new Groovy and Grails features look great – and there’s preliminary support for Gradle! Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.0 was also released – be sure to check the New and Noteworthy page. And there’s also a new blog post on the new DSL support feature that was announced last week.

GR8Conf starts this Tuesday, and the final presenter interviews have been published:

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 5 new plugins released:

force-response-download version 0.1. Forces the browser to open a dialog for downloading content produced within controller actions
jprogress version 0.2. Simplifies the use of JQuery and progress bars
zk-hibernate version 1.1-M1. Hibernate support for ZKGrails
zk-mongodb version 1.1-M1. Spring MongoDB Datastore support for ZK and Grails
zk-redis version 1.1-M1. Spring Redis Datastore support for ZK and Grails

and 11 updated plugins:

activiti version 5.5. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
activiti-spring-security version 0.4.2. Integrates Spring Security to Activiti as custom IdentityService
aws version 1.1.9.2. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
domain-expectations version 0.6.1. A test framework that allows you to test your domain/command constraints by defining expectations within a unit test or integration test
extended-validation version 1.0.5. Provides partial validation of (groups) of fields, cascaded validation and instance validators for non-domain objects.
flash-helper version 0.6. Simplifies and standardizes the process of adding/reading messages in the flash scope
modernizr version 1.7.2. Provides the Modernizr Javascript library resource files from http://www.modernizr.com/
scala version 0.6.1. Allows you to compile Scala sources in the /src/java and /src/scala folders of your application
stella version 1.4.1. Plugin que integra o framework brasileiro Stella (http://stella.caelum.com.br) para seu projeto grails
zk version 1.1-M1. Adds ZK Ajax framework (www.zkoss.org) support to Grails applications
zk-ee version 1.1-M1. Enterprise Addons for the ZK plugin

Interesting Tweets

@chochosmx: No puedo creer lo estúpidamente fácil que es hacer taglibs en Grails #ahpm
@rfletcherEW: Our new #Grails app is live: http://t.co/8nJuaM1
@graemerocher: Vote for HTML5 Web Socket support in Tomcat http://t.co/2etkK3Y #grails #tomcat
@pledbrook: Are you following @grailsplugins? If not why not? More and more #grails plugin releases are announced via Twitter.
@andy_clement: #sts 2.7.0.m1 is out, it has some preliminary #gradle support! Docs: http://tinyurl.com/3f8w3aj
@tednaleid: I didn’t realize that United Health had this many apps on Grails, great to see big players in MN get into grails too: http://j.mp/j0k7Zx%0A
@jaxcon: Grails – Nominated for the Most Innovative Java Technology http://bit.ly/lGzA3W #jaxawards
@domix: Just released #Scala #Grails #plugin, with latest #Scala compiler available 2.9.0 http://t.co/3eEIjF3 #ahpm
@nofluff: Register Today! SpringOne 2GX returns Oct 25-28th w/over 100 sessions on Spring, Groovy/Grails, Tomcat & Cloud www.springone2gx.com #nfjs
@robpatrick: #grails dependency-report has saved the day again.
@graemerocher: #grails 1.4 now with #spring 3.1 and support for defining #spring profiles using #grails environment API http://t.co/x6BSEzF