This Week in Grails (2011-41)

I released the initial version of the atomikos plugin this week. This works with the new multiple datasources support in Grails 2.0 (and should work with the datasources plugin although I haven’t tested that yet) to add two-phase commit support for JDBC and JMS. The documentation describes how to use it and includes an extensive tutorial covering both multiple databases and combining a database call with sending a JMS message. Coincidentally this interesting blog post on Using JMS in Grails was posted this week.

The Groovy team released version 1.8.3 and beta 4 of 1.9 this week. Check out Guillaume’s post to see what’s new in the two releases.

Do you live in the Seattle area? Do you have 9 friends who are good at Grails? You’re in luck – a company there is looking for 10(!) Grails developers – see the item in the jobs section below.

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 Miscellaneous Items
 Plugins
 Interesting Tweets
 Jobs
 User groups and Conferences

Plugins

There were 6 new plugins released:

  • atomikos version 1.0. Integrates Atomikos TransactionsEssentials to support two-phase commit for JDBC and JMS transactions
  • cdn-resources version 0.2. Loads static resources using Content Delivery Networks using the Resources plugin framework
  • cxf-client version 1.0. Use existing (or new) Apache CXF wsdl2java generated content to invoke SOAP services
  • random-test-order version 0.2. Run unit, integration, and functional tests in a random order
  • scorm version 0.2. Adds SCORM reading capabilities
  • gsp-resources version 0.1. Use the resources plugin to include static files like main.css.gsp, so dynamically built CSS and JS can be served as proper files instead of inlined in a non-cacheable GSP file

and 17 updated plugins:

  • compass-sass version 0.5. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
  • date-formatting version 0.2.2. Adds functions to the Date object to convert into various string formats
  • email-confirmation version 1.0.5. Sends an email to a user with a link to click to confirm site registration
  • external-config-reload version 0.4.7. Polls for changes to external configuration files (files added to grails.config.locations), reloads the configuration when a change has occurred, and notifies specified plugins by firing the onConfigChange event in each
  • file-viewer version 0.2. Provides a user-friendly way to view folders and files
  • flyingcow version 1.0. Fork of the ui-performance plugin with some enhancements
  • fsm version 0.6.6. Finite State Machine behavior
  • google-visualization version 0.3. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
  • grails-melody version 1.9. Integrates the JavaMelody system monitoring tool
  • jquery-mobile version 0.2. Provides jQuery mobile framework resource files
  • mongodb-morphia version 0.7.4. Alternative MongoDB GORM based on the Morphia library (former gorm-mongodb)
  • mongodb-multitenant version 0.2.2.6-BETA. Enables multitenancy for MongoDB
  • portlets version 0.9. Aims to provide a simple way of developing JSR-168 portlets
  • portlets-liferay version 0.4. Uses the Portlets Plugin and adds Liferay Portal specific configurations and adapters
  • spring-security-core version 1.2.3. The official Grails security plugin; integrates with Spring Security
  • spring-security-twitter version 0.3.3. Twitter authentication as extension to the Spring Security Core plugin
  • twitter-bootstrap version 1.3.0.8. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

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