Archive for April 23rd, 2012

This Week in Grails (2012-16)

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The April edition of the Java Tech Journal is all about Groovy; check out the table of contents:

Making JavaFX Groovier – Easy Development of JavaFx 2.x Applications, Dean Iverson
Contracts for Groovy – GContracts: A Design by Contract Extension for Groovy, Andre Steingress
Grails: Beyond the Quickstart – Is Grails Suitable for the Java Enterprise? You Bet!, Peter Ledbrook
Griffon: Desktop Development – The Fun Way – Building Desktop Applications with Groovy, Andres Almiray
‘coz Concurrency is Groovy! – GPars: Parallel Systems Made Java-friendly, Václav Pech
“The Ecosystem Is a Key Asset to Groovy’s Success” – Interview with Groovy Project Lead Guillaume Laforge

Check out this week’s GR8Conf EU speaker interviews:

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Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

Miscellaneous Items

Plugins

There were 6 new plugins released:

artefact-messaging version 0.2. Adds the message function just as in controllers to services or other arbitrarily defined artefacts
bootstrap-file-upload version 1.1.3. Integrates Sebastian Tschan’s Jquery File Upload (https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload)
dynamodb version 0.1.1. Integrates the AWS DynamoDB datastore, providing a GORM API
hazelgrails version 0.1. Distribute your data with Hazelcast
shiro-oauth version 0.1. Adds OAuth-based authentication to the Shiro plugin using the Scribe OAuth plugin
yammer-metrics version 2.1.2-1. Packages Coda Hale’s yammer metrics jars

and 7 updated plugins:

avatar version 0.6.1. Provides a taglib for displaying avatars
cucumber version 0.4.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
fitnesse version 2.0.1. Makes it possible to use the popular Open Source testing framework Fitnesse in combination with Grails.
jslint version 0.4. Run JsLint on javascript files
routing version 1.2.1. Send and route messages to a wide variety of destination endpoints directly from your Controllers and Services using Camel
smart-sprites-resources version 0.2. Creates Sprites using SmartSprites as a component of the Resources plugin
spring-batch version 0.1.1. Provides the Spring Batch framework and convention based Jobs

Interesting Tweets

@graemerocher: Got a #grails 2.1 snapshot project building with maven’s multi module support.
@cavneb: I just found Bobby Warner’s blog. It has a TON of great stuff regarding #grails. Keep up the good work @bobbywarner
@grails_rocks: Check out the new Navigation API and docs, available in platform-core 1.0.M2-SNAPSHOT released to grails repo Docs: http://t.co/DZYGi7sX
@grailsstartups: Subscribe to our RSS feed @ http://t.co/CSUChu6j #grails #startups
@GR8ConfUS: @ddelponte @nilarson We just added some travel information to the conference website http://t.co/Um2NHooY #gr8conf
@gr8conf: Video from #GR8Conf 2011: Building Progressive UIs with Grails http://t.co/Xr3mRbgM on stage: @rfletcherEW #grails #groovy #gr8technologies
@menilub: Groovy & Grails Israel Meetup Group http://t.co/yW4FUyBc
@andy_clement: #groovy #eclipse dev builds now providing early Groovy 2.0 support: http://t.co/ATndyJzl
@rstepanenko: Support for #aws #nosql #dynamodb in #grails released: http://t.co/e3oapa4Y. Looking for beta testers!
@zanthrash: #Grails 2.0 Pro Tip: Don’t extend GrailsUnitTestCase in integration tests. This cause bad things to happen. Use GroovyTestCase instead.
@johnrellis: ohhhh looks like my first open source commit was accepted.. start small 🙂 #grails https://t.co/WAnUMHzm
@tim_yates: Rough Lazy List Comprehensions in #Groovy https://t.co/vtF6BrwJ
@glaforge: Slides from @cedricchampeau and myself, on #Groovy 2.0, given at #Devoxx France 2012 http://t.co/rWIRGVoy via @slideshare
@beckje01: Just updated #grails plugin jslint it now allows for XML and HTML report output it works great with #jenkins