This Week in Grails (2013-20)

The big news is that Grails 2.3 M1 was released. 2.3 will be a big update with many fixes, enhancements, and new features. M1 only has a subset of what’s coming and it’s already packed with cool new stuff. Graeme did some writeups on what’s coming, Grails 2.3 M1 and Upcoming M2 and Road to Grails 2.3: RESTful URL Mappings and URL Mapping Reports.

Be sure to check out this cool video on Grails that the folks at Orange & Bronze created.

I released two plugins, standalone-tomcat-memcached and standalone-tomcat-redis. These are like the database-session plugin in that they reconfigure the web server to store session data in a datastore instead of the traditional approach, but these only work with Tomcat since they work directly with the Tomcat APIs instead of intercepting and replacing the real sessions. I’ve been working on reconfiguring how Grails applications deploy to Heroku, changing from using an embedded Jetty instance to using the standalone plugin (either with Tomcat or Jetty). Along the way since Heroku doesn’t support sticky sessions I created these plugins to get things working smoothly with the heroku plugin. More on this later.

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 Miscellaneous Items
 Plugins
 Interesting Tweets
 Jobs
 User groups and Conferences

Plugins

There were 7 new plugins released:

  • apidocs version 0.1. Generates REST API documentation
  • criteria-js version 0.3. GORM criteria for JavaScript
  • db-helper-rest version 0.3. Provides methods for dropping, creating and initialization of database schema from the project bootstrap
  • httplogger version 1.0. Logs HTTP traffic
  • required-parameters version 1.0.0. Enables verifying required parameters for controller actions using simple annotations
  • standalone-tomcat-memcached version 0.1. Uses Memcached as the Tomcat session manager
  • standalone-tomcat-redis version 0.1. Uses Redis as the Tomcat session manager

and 26 updated plugins:

  • goodform version 1.0.2. Create extremely usable complex forms with rules based flow that work well in browsers
  • airbrake version 0.9.3. Notifier plugin for integrating apps with Airbrake
  • asynchronous-mail version 1.0-RC5. Send email asynchronously by storing them in the database and sending with a Quartz job
  • aws-sdk version 1.4.3. Use the Amazon Web Services infrastructure services
  • closure-templates-resources version 0.2.3. Supports server-side compilation of .soy template files to JavaScript files
  • easyui version 1.3. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
  • external-config-reload version 1.3.0. Polls for changes to external configuration files (files added to grails.config.locations), reloads the configuration when a change has occurred, and notifies specified plugins by firing the onConfigChange event in each
  • font-awesome-resources version 3.1. Integrates the Font Awesome icon set
  • google-visualization version 0.6.2. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
  • grails-melody version 1.44. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
  • hibernate version 3.6.10.M3. Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate through GORM
  • i18n-fields version 0.6.4. Provides a declarative way of localizing domain classes’ fields for different languages
  • jrimum-bopepo version 0.3. Allows you to create Boletos Bancarios for Banks of Brazil using the Jrimum Bopepo library
  • neo4j version 1.0.0.RC2. GORM for Neo4j
  • newrelic version 1.0-2.18.0. Adds the NewRelic Real User Monitoring feature to your GSP pages
  • pusher version 0.5. Wrapper for pusher.com REST api
  • recaptcha version 0.6.5. Integrates ReCaptcha and Mailhide services
  • remote-pagination version 0.4.4. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
  • segmentio version 0.2.0. Use Segment.io to send your analytics data to any service you want, without you having to integrate with each one individually
  • spring-security-mock version 1.0.2. Mock authentication support for Spring Security
  • standalone version 1.2.1. Runs a Grails application as a JAR file with an embedded Tomcat server
  • vaadin version 1.7.5. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
  • validate-config version 0.4.2. Adds methods to ConfigObject for validating expected and required properties
  • war-exec version 1.0.3. Makes the war files generated by Grails executable (java -jar myapp.war) by embedding Jetty. Jetty can be configured using properties in Config.groovy
  • webdriver version 0.4.2. Integrates Webdriver with Grails to allow functional testing in both HtmlUnit and real browsers
  • xwiki-rendering version 1.0-RC3. Convert texts using XWiki Rendering Framework

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 7:15pm and is filed under grails, grailsplugin, groovy, java, ThisWeekInGrails. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “This Week in Grails (2013-20)”

  1. staticnull says:
    May 26, 2013 at 6:15 am

    Burt,

    Thanks for the hard work on the Heroku and cache plugins. It’s much appreciated and I like having options when it comes to deployment. It’s a big win for shops that have a mix of frameworks. i.e. Grails and Rails.

    Cheers

  2. Floyd says:
    July 6, 2013 at 8:11 am

    What happened to this blog? Still checking daily for new content… Keep up the good work!

  3. Travis Webb says:
    July 8, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    Interested in hearing more about your work with Grails + Heroku. Everything works beautifully in the technical/configuration sense, but I am having issues with memory usage.

    -tjw

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