This Week in Grails (2011-13)

Grails 1.4 development is coming along well; Graeme has done some very cool work with AST transformations to make GORM methods available in the bytecode instead of just in the MetaClass, and has also added support for abstract inheritance. Jeff is adding a new findOrCreateWhere() method that has been requested a few times. Luke Daley merged in his Ivy dependency management code rework, and Robert Fletcher’s scaffolding rework looks great. Check out the Roadmap for the current plan for 1.4.

Congratulations to Stéphane Maldini for becoming the latest Grails committer. He contributed several fixes and enhancements and is looking at some new AST transforms for GSPs (in part to help with Groovy++ integration).

GR8Conf is coming up next month and the organizers are publishing interviews with the presenters. They have a few up and the rest will be posted periodically (including mine once I get off my butt and submit mine):

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There was 1 new plugin released:

artisteerplugin version 0.4. Integration with Artisteer templates

and 11 updated plugins:

drools-gorm version 0.5.0. Integrates Drools 5.2 and jBPM 5 and provides persistent storage using GORM
facebook-graph version 0.11. Provides access to the Facebook Graph API and makes easier the development of a single sign-on using the Facebook Authentication proposal.
flash-helper version 0.5. Simplifies and standardizes the process of adding/reading messages in the flash scope
grails-melody version 1.2. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
infinispan version 0.4.1. Adds support for the JBoss Infinispan distributed cache
jquery version 1.5.2. Integrates jQuery
jquery-ui version 1.8.10.1. Supplies jQuery UI resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries
mongodb-morphia version 0.7.2. Alternative MongoDB GORM based on the Morphia library (former gorm-mongodb)
spawn version 0.4. Allows you to specify a specific template for a domain class
spring-security-openid version 1.0.2. OpenID authentication support for the Spring Security plugin
weceem version 1.0-RC1.SNAPSHOT. A content management system

Interesting Tweets

@rfletcherEW: Pushed a new version of #Grails scaffolding example app: http://t.co/CnMUriV (HTML5 validation & a few styling tweaks)
@nhoussos: Open source applicant tracking (e-Recruitment) system by EKT (developed in Grails!): http://code.google.com/p/e-applicant/
@sbglasius: I will be speaking at #mow2011 – 50 minutes about Grails. http://www.mow2011.dk
@vaclav_pech: If you like the visual Groovy Fork/Join demo, spread the word and vote – http://bit.ly/gNxaap
@frangarcia: Para los que todavía no lo sepan. Hemos creado el Grupo de Usuarios de Groovy&Grails del Levante de España: http://bit.ly/hXAM8a
@frangarcia: Me acabo de dar cuenta de que agile y grails casi comparten las mismas letras. ¿Mera coincidencia?
@weceem: A Weceem 1.0-RC1.SNAPSHOT is released to grails plugin repo. This is feature-complete 1.0, trawling for bugs now. Please test!
@wcherry69: Deployed v0.1 of XPlanner internally. Simple Grails app that allows me to create and assign task cards to iterations. Currently dog-fooding.
@sarbogast: Sent my first JSON request from iPhone to Grails with RestKit, and back. Feel like I just made contact with aliens :oP
@graemerocher: #gorm AST transformation for #grails now committed. Richer API for statically compiled code coming in 1.4
@domix: Para empezar el día ~19200 usuarios conectados. Tomcat+Grails+RabbitMQ = #ahpm
@ldaley: Merge complete: https://github.com/grails/grails-core/network
@graemerocher: Support for abstract inheritance tree in #gorm committed http://t.co/HZh6p7E #grails
@gr8conf: Only 14 days until Early Bird discount ends. Register now at http://gr8conf.eu and save €300 #groovy #grails #griffon #gr8conf
@pledbrook: Query #grails plugin portal with JSON results: http://grails.org/plugins/?q=tag:messaging&format=json
@emedinam: #jQuery Mobile alpha 4 released – http://tinyurl.com/4cpdk4e – Love to combine it with #grails server applications
@jeffscottbrown: New GORM feature in Grails 1.4 is support for findOrCreateWhere queries http://bit.ly/fnJydx #grails #gorm

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

GeeCON 2011
- May 11-14, 2011 Krakow, Poland
GR8 Conference Europe 2011
- May 17^th-19^th in Copenhagen
GR8 Conference US 2011
- June 27^th-28^th in Minneapolis, MN

Søren Berg Glasius: Groovy og Grails for Javaudviklere
- GOTO GeekNight, April 12, 2011
Natural Language Testing and Infinispan Data Grid, 18 Apr 2011
- London GGUG

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