Archive for May 8th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-18)

Sunday, May 08th, 2011

An early version of support for describing DSLs in Groovy-Eclipse was announced this week and there’s already some extensive documentation. This is cool stuff especially for plugin developers since it’s now possible to ship DSLD descriptors that tell STS how to autocomplete arbitrary DSLs. The Database Migration plugin has a Liquibase DSL that closely mirrors the native XML syntax, so I’m hoping it’ll be straightforward to create one for that once I get some time to look at it.

GR8Conf is only one week away, and more presenter interviews have been published:

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

extjs4 version 4.0.0.0. Provides Ext JS 4 resources
extra-validators version 0.2. Provides validators in addition to the default validators
cloud-bees version 0.1. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API

and 11 updated plugins:

extended-validation version 1.0.4. Provides partial validation of (groups) of fields, cascaded validation and instance validators for non-domain objects.
flot version 0.2.3. Provides integration with Flot JavaScript plotting library
ibatis version 1.3.2. Integrates the MyBatis persistence framework
jquery version 1.6. Integrates jQuery
jquery-json version 2.2.2. Supplies jQuery JSON resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries
json-rest-api version 1.0.8. JSON RESTful API for GORM
paypal version 0.6.3. Adds PayPal integration
release version 1.0.0.M1. Publishes Grails plugins either to a public or private repository
stella version 1.4. Plugin que integra o framework brasileiro Stella (http://stella.caelum.com.br) para seu projeto grails
svn version 1.0.0.M1. Provides SVNKit as a dependency; an SvnClient class that makes it easier to work with Subversion; and integration with the Release plugin
view-models version 0.2-SNAPSHOT. Grails support for the MVVM pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel

Interesting Tweets

@tednaleid: sent pull request to grails-core to add readOnly, flushMode, fetchSize, timeout params to find/findAll/…/executeQuery http://j.mp/lTOXnF%0A
@graemerocher: Wrapping up the improvements to domain class reloading using a jvm agent in #grails 1.4
@greach_es: Greach es la conferencia exclusiva y gratuita sobre Groovy de Madrid el 4 de Noviembre. ¡Apunta ese día en tu agenda! #groovy #grails RT pls
@graemerocher: #grails 1.4 now using #tomcat 7 and Servlet 3.0 http://t.co/9Phci1o and http://t.co/5AFrSLW
@graemerocher: Next: Adding agent based reloading to the #grails shell and console
@aWeino: I’m so glad #grails ruin-app doesn’t do anything. #typo
@gabriel_vmw: Having to refactor some #grails. Thanks #STS for making the task more pleasurable.
@brianjohnsendk: Looking forward to #gr8conf. The agenda is packed with great G-stuff! #groovy #grails
@marcinerdmann: My first pull request for Grails has been merged into the trunk: http://goo.gl/u9pWb. I hope that it’s not the last one! #happy #proud
@TSJSinfo: Recently launched online #jewellery store written in #grails http://bit.ly/fx1NDa
@graemerocher: Last few weeks have been intense, but #grails 1.4 M1 is getting closer to release
@StefanRied: 18300 developers signed up on #cfoundry shortly after it was anounced
@fsamir: Grails Social Showcase
http://t.co/cZ3eqPD
#grails
@fifthposition: The latest http://silver-chalice.com/ #grails-powered site is up: http://cocoaconf.com/
@andy_clement: Latest #groovy #eclipse snapshots now include groovy 1.7.10 and the groovy 1.8.0 release
@jeffscottbrown: We (Grails) are 2.5 years into the Git experience and I would not want to go back. #git #grails
@ldaley: Grails 1.4 handles SNAPSHOT dependencies and plugins out of the box, automatically fetching updates where necessary.