Archive for December 27th, 2011

This Week in Grails (2011-51)

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

This week was a bit quieter than last – it’d be hard to top the release of Grails 2.0. Things seem to be going very well with a few bumps, and the consensus seems to be that people are psyched about the new release.

The Groovy team released Groovy 1.8.5 and 2.0 Beta 2. Looks like Invoke Dynamic support, Static Type Checking and initial work on static compilation are coming along.

If you’re in the Boston area, I’ll be doing a talk at NEJUG on January 12th on what’s new in Grails 2.0 and Groovy 1.8.


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Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

  • feature-toggle version 0.1. The feature toggles plugin provides Tag Libraries and dynamic methods to implement configurable features
  • mahout-recommender version 0.5.1. Use Apache Mahout recommendation algorithms in your project
  • quick-input version 0.1.1. Provides new input tags supporting some mass input capabilities

and 16 updated plugins:

  • activiti version 5.8.1. Integrates the Activiti BPM Suite and workflow system
  • address-lookup-zpfour version 0.1.2. Provides address lookup service and tags so you can easily add address lookups to your web app if you have a ZP4 HTTPSERV service from Semaphore corp running on your network
  • browser-detection version 0.3.2. Provides a service and tag library for browser detection
  • bulkload version 0.1.1. Export or bulkload all the instances of a given class from the client browser
  • cloud-bees version 0.5.4. Adds scripts to integrate with the CloudBees client API
  • constraints version 0.7.0. Allows you to create custom domain Constraints for validating Domain objects
  • geb version 0.6.2. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
  • greenmail version 1.3.1. Provides a wrapper around GreenMail and provides a view that displays ‘sent’ messages – useful for testing
  • joda-time version 1.3.1. Integrates the Joda Time date/time library into Grails
  • mail version 1.0. Send email from your application
  • modernizr version 2.0.6. Provides the Modernizr Javascript library resource files from http://www.modernizr.com/
  • new-doc version 0.3.2. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
  • sanitizer version 0.7.1. Sanitizes markup(HTML, XHTML, CSS) using OWASP AntiSamy Filters
  • spring-security-facebook version 0.5.3. Plugin for Facebook Authentication, as extension to Grails Spring Security Core plugin
  • spring-security-saml version 1.0.0.M10. SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
  • struts-menu version 1.2.1. Basic Grails wrapper for Struts Menu

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