This Week in Grails (2011-06)

This week saw another mega thread on the User mailing list, this time on hosting options. Looks like the winner is Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and there’s a lot of useful information in the thread, so be sure to check it out.

Maybe it has been a common practice and I’ve only noticed it because I watch new and updated plugins for these posts, but it seems like most recent plugin releases require the latest (or a very recent) version of Grails as the minimum version. When you run grails create-plugin the generated plugin descriptor defaults to def grailsVersion = "1.3.6 > *" (assuming you use Grails 1.3.6). A lot of developers will still be using older versions of Grails and won’t even be able to test your plugin. This may be intentional – if you don’t have users, you won’t get bug reports 🙂 Be sure to drop the minimum version (and fill out the rest of the fields!) but make sure you test with earlier versions.

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

dbconsole version 1.0. Provides a web based database console for pre-1.4 apps
multi-tenant-proxy version 1.0. Multi-tenant add-on to use domain tenant resolver with http proxy in front of your app server
spring-security-bcrypt version 0.3. Use the bcrypt encryption algorithm to hash your users’ passwords with the spring-security-core plugin
tropo-webapi-grails version 0.1. Use Tropo’s cloud API to add phone, SMS and Instant Messaging support

There were also several updated plugins:

ajaxflow version 0.2.0. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
autobase version 0.11.0. Database migrations
aws version 1.1.5.1. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
dojo version 1.4.3.7. Integrates the Dojo javascript toolkit
ibatis version 1.3.1. Integrates the MyBatis persistence framework
navigation version 1.2. Implements simple menu navigation using convention
rabbitmq version 0.3. Integrates with Rabbit MQ messaging
sanitizer version 0.6. Sanitizes markup(HTML, XHTML, CSS) using OWASP AntiSamy Filters
screencasts version 0.5.1. Allows the upload, management and display of screencasts
shiro version 1.1.3. Secure your Grails application quickly and easily using the Apache Shiro security framework
spring-security-acl version 1.0.2. ACL support for the Spring Security plugin
taggable version 0.6.3. Adds support for associating tags with domain classes

Interesting Tweets

@rfletcherEW: Made a good start on a #jQueryMobile plugin for #Grails today. Scaffolding pages look pretty cool.
@ajordens: Playing with async events in Grails, seems to work as expected — http://t.co/YGoo5kK
@robpatrick: Loving the build-test-data #grails plugin by @tednaleid & @hooverjoseph keep up the good work.
@jt_coleman: Loving the #rabbitmq plugin for #grails. Asynchronous messaging is going to this web app a lot faster and more reliable 🙂
@bradleybeddoes: AAF federation registry toolset built in #grails open sourced – http://wiki.aaf.edu.au/federationregistry/
@tomaslin: Very cool – Busk.fm let’s you find and share free licensed music – ( built with grails, via wangjammer5 ) http://busk.fm
@epragt: Built a stub version in #Grails of our cashregister. Took an hour to build, but it already prevented days of integration problems.
@mengukagan: the #grails irc channel has over 50+ people after mentioning it on the mailing list. @graemerocher and @pledbrook are also there! join us!
@chanwit: OpenSessionInView is working. #zk for #grails is now cloud portable!
@tomaslin: Seems Amazon Beanstalk and AWS is becoming the default for new grails app hosting
@pledbrook: Another #grails screencast: http://grails.org/screencast/show/20 – this time on mobile web development
@daveklein: Wow! 19 #Grails screencasts at http://grails.org/screencasts
@smaldini: Contribute to the elastic-search plugin road map ! post your ideas here http://bit.ly/gnHPxJ #grails #plugin #icescrum #elasticsearch
@hansamann: http://www.parleys.com/d/2221 Groovy/Grails Development in Eclipse
@berngp: +1 #grails “Property Override Configuration” is a handy and clean way to configure an application.. http://bit.ly/hQxWwZ
@tomaslin: Wow. Cool — Tropo = Voice, Twitter, SMS and IM API —> Tropo Grails Plugin http://grails.org/plugin/tropo-webapi-grails

Jobs

Grails-Entwickler – Karlsruhe, Germany
@ivelinabw: is looking for Android developer and Java (Grails) developer for Sofia city.
Grails Developer: ecommerce project / digital marketing application (3-month contract) in Boston
Grails/Java Developer contract in Boston
Java Web App Developer (contract) in Austin, TX
Senior Software Engineer: JVM Webapps and Content
Agile Java Developer – Groovy / Grails (2 3-month contract positions in London)
Senior Java Developer/Grails Engineer – Los Feliz, CA
@DIS_ITFreelance: Wir sind auf der Suche nach Groovy/Grails Spezialisten! Please RT
Java Grails Developer (3-6 month contract) in Walnut Creek, CA
@glaforge: Someone interested for a 6 months #groovy/#grails project in #london, ping @wernerkeil rapidly!
Java Developer w/ Grails, 6-month contract in Boston
@jdriven_nl: I’m hiring: Java and Grails Developers or Architects at JDriven – Utrecht Area, Netherlands #jobs http://lnkd.in/KGH7Yk
Freelance Java Grails / Groovy project, 3-6 month contract in The Netherlands
@recruithurst: Perm Grails Developer – London, £30-75k…is this you? Are you experienced in Grails, Java, J2ee, XP development.? #grails #web #london

User groups and Conferences

GR8 Conference Europe 2011
- May 17^th-19^th in Copenhagen – currently in “Selecting speakers and talks” phase
GeeCON 2011
- May 11-14, 2011 Krakow, Poland

@pstehlik: My slides from @SFGrails meetup ‘running #grails in the cloud’ – http://bit.ly/hmy5uE
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

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