This Week in Grails (2011-05)

I guess the big item of the week was the mammoth Grails User mailing list thread on “Grails Adoption”. It’s easily one of the longest threads I’ve seen since being a subscriber to the mailing list (currently at 102 messages), and it’s been a very interesting read.

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One item that you might have missed was the release of STS 2.6.0 M1. Looking at the “New and Noteworthy” document there are plenty of new and improved features of interest to Groovy and Grails developers:

Support setting ‘env’ parameters for deploying Grails Apps on Tc server
UI support for setting System properties passed to Grails Commands
Compilation of Grails projects will no longer produce warnings in the problems view for dependent plugin source files.
Overriding the plugin install location (grails.project.plugins.dir) in a Grails project will now correctly be reflected in any linked source folders created for plugins.
Code assist performance has been improved
Find occurrences in groovy files (CTRL-Shift-U) now works
Mark occurrences now works
Improved syntax highlighting
Better type inferencing for closures inside DGM calls
Ability to set Method entry breakpoints
Fixed some issues preventing the setting of breakpoints

and I know that there will be plenty more added before the full release (this is just the 1^st milestone).

If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed for just these posts.

Miscellaneous Items

New Spring Security Kerberos plugin
Check out the new Grails Entrepreneurs Facebook group
5 reasons why groovy++ should fork and rename
Lightning Fast Grails Builds (a.k.a. Poor Man’s SSD)
http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-31
http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-01
http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-02
http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-03
http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-02-04
Grails AJAX Examples
Would you like to see an Ubuntu PPA repository for Grails?
How to set default port for grails application
Dojo plugin update
A Java/XML/Hibernate approach to the collections issues mentioned in my GORM talk from SpringOne
Grails alerts with jAlarms & Opsview
Feature Flipping Grails Plugin: Part 2 (Creating an Admin page)
Downloading sources and javadocs of dependencies in Grails; updated for STS 2.5.2
Grails Passwords, Salted
- An older post that I was reminded of this week – good info about using salted passwords
Grails and JSON services with existing DB. Parte I (in Spanish)
Tomcat 6.0.32 Released
Groovy++ web console updated
New Spring Mobile plugin
Groovy 1.7.7 and 1.8-beta-4 released!
Grails Goodness: One WAR to Rule Them All: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
A function plus a function is a function
This week in Spring: February 1st, 2011

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

horn version 1.0. Easily embed data semantically in your HTML and extract it for use as your JavaScript model.
spring-mobile version 0.1. Uses the Spring Mobile project to detect mobile devices
spring-security-kerberos version 0.1. Adds Kerberos single sign-on support

There were also several updated plugins:

activiti version 5.2. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
app-info version 0.4.2. provides a UI for inspecting and altering various aspects of the application’s configuration
aws version 1.1.4.1. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
cxf version 0.7.0. Expose Grails services as SOAP web services via CXF
dojo version 1.4.3.6. Adds support for the Dojo JavaScript toolkit
eclipse-scripts version 1.0.4. Downloads and links sources and javadocs for dependencies from public repositories
fixtures version 1.0.4. Load test data via a convenient DSL
ibatis version 1.3.0. Integrates the MyBatis persistence framework
invitation-only version 1.1. Manages user invitations to your application
lang-selector version 0.3. Provides a tag to display flags for countries of the languages your application supports and switch locales
remote-control version 1.1.1. Execute code inside a remote Grails application
webdriver version 0.3.1. Integrates Webdriver with Grails to allow functional testing in both HtmlUnit and real browsers

Interesting Tweets

@wanswins: @danilocmiranda já implementamos vários projetos Grails em produção: não dá pra voltar atrás! plataforma java + inovacao = sucesso
@_davidr: Splitted 1 monolithic #grails application in 2 smaller apps with 1 common plugin in one morning: it was easier than expected 🙂
@bgoetzmann: Une démo de Text To Speech (WebReader) avec Grails ici : http://tinyurl.com/6h5dpew ; ajouter ?texte=votre texte pour personnaliser le texte
@pledbrook: Want to announce #grails plugins on the forum? Register with Nabble and private message me your ID.
@tianjianfeng: #grails reverse engineering plugin is awesome. #works
@mittie: Grails customer at morning:”I’m tired of manual testing. How about this @canoo #webtest thing?”…
@spacebaboon: New job is awesome, lots of geeks, lots of interesting work, the future’s all #grails !
@pledbrook: Use #grails console to debug #selenium-rc tests? Sound crazy? Apparently not: http://bit.ly/hgNgHY – novel approach
@sbglasius: #gr8conf agenda meeting with @glaforge – making gr8 progress
@rfletcherEW: 2 new sites launched today on our #Grails platform http://t.co/4gjKt65 & http://t.co/X3vdrId
@guspower: if you want to keep using #jetty with #grails then check out the jetty7 plugin: http://code.google.com/p/grails-jetty7/
@ldaley: Enable proper handling of SNAPSHOT dependencies from Maven repos with Grails 1.3: http://bit.ly/e7cIDi
@rholewa: Great #Java conferences don’t have to be expensive! #GeeCON registration is open! Please RT http://bit.ly/h8dFaq
@graemerocher: #grails based social project management startup Manymoon acquired by Salesforce.com http://bit.ly/dUbiJM
@hansamann: fun fun. using springsource tool suite for grails development. so far I was a textmaty 🙂
@PeterBell: W00t – gonna be writing a preview of #gr8conf (eu and us) for the March edition of #groovymag
@lhotari: Time for #Grails ? Forrester:”Java has reached Cobol status for enterprise business applications.” http://goo.gl/ySPX3
@stevegood: I’ve started a #Groovy & #Grails Entrepreneurs group on Facebook. Join in the conversation! http://on.fb.me/gej8RB
@graemerocher: Logged into the #grails IRC channel at irc.freenode.net, quite a few folks in there

Jobs

Check out this cool heat map of the locations of jobs posted at grailsjobs.com (via @tomaslin)

Also check out these interesting trend graphs from indeed.com that were mentioned in that mammoth mailing list thread; the trend for Grails, and the relative trend compared to Ruby, Scala, PHP, Python, and Java

@Leenekes: We zoeken: – JAVA medior / seniors 3 a 4 jaar ervaring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Groovy and grails, scrum: locatie MECHELEN!!
2-3 month contract at Optaros in Boston
Principal Software Engineer at Innocentive in the Boston area
- Reposting, they’re still looking
Grails contract in London
Investment Banking Contract in London
2 Groovy/Grails Developers in Miami, FL
2 Grails Developers (6-12 month Contract) in London, investment banking client
Grails developer near Bremen, Germany
@synergyj: Buscamos a un Java developer que quiera aprender Groovy y Grails. Para proyecto de comercio electrónico global
@alaverdyan: #be2 is hiring Senior Software Engineers in #Yerevan! exciting position with a lot of great guys around… #java #grails don’t miss it
@alexandrevs: #vaga Grails e Java Senior para trabalhar em SP e Campinas. URGENTE! Pls RT. Entrar em contato comigo para envío de CV.
@domix: Estamos buscando ingenieros Java que deseen aprender Groovy & Grails http://t.co/fdSFCYs
@epragt: #Jworks is nog steeds op zoek naar fanatieke #Groovy / #Grails developers. Geïnteresseerden kunnen een mail sturen naar @jworks.nl’>grails@jworks.nl
Java Developer at Bradley Corporation in Menomonee Falls, WI
3-month contract in Toronto
Grails developer at http://www.carbonflow.com/
Senior Software Engineer at Taulia in San Francisco
Software Engineer – Front End at Taulia, San Francisco
Software Engineer – API Integration at Taulia in San Francisco
Software Engineer – Back End at Taulia, San Francisco
Grails Engineer, San Mateo, CA
Jr. Level G/G developer (contract) at Empathic Clinical Suites in Minneapolis
VP of Technology at Empathic Clinical Suites in Minneapolis
@quantumsv: Recruiting for Groovy Developer – Grails / Java for a financial services start-up in Mountain View

User groups and Conferences

Spring I/O 2011
- February 17^th-18^th in Madrid, Spain
GR8 Conference Europe 2011
- May 17^th-19^th in Copenhagen – currently in “Call for Papers” phase
GeeCON 2011
- May 11-14, 2011 Krakow, Poland

Grails, Roo, & Play
- Baltimore Washington Java Meetup
@GroovyGrailsQld: New Event: Regular Lunch-hour Meetup in Brisbane #groovy #grails
@glaforge: Great overview of the #groovy #grails exchange conference in London last december, in Japanese: http://slidesha.re/hZu6AB
Agile Database Modelling and a Preview of Grails 1.4
- San Francisco Grails Cafe Centro
Groovy & Grails: what’s all the fuss?
- London Groovy & Grails User Group
Show / Tell
- The New York Groovy / Grails Meetup Group

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