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Groovy / Grails Update from G2One at the No Fluff Just Stuff Meetup

cornsomething — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:14:11 -0400

This gathering was put on by the people who take the excellent NFJS series around the United States throughout the year. I was fortunate enough to attend my first one just a few weeks ago in Seattle and am happy to say that in the course of one weekend, the symposium reminded me of so many reasons why I got into developing software. With that kind of introduction you might think I would have high...

GMaven 1.0-rc-1 released

aalmiray — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:51:53 -0400

Jason Dillon just released the next incarnation of the Groovy plugin for Maven. Among the updates and new features you will find

Groovy 1.6-beta-1 is released

aalmiray — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:19:27 -0400

It is with great pleasure that G2One and the Groovy development team announce the first beta of Groovy 1.6.Beyond the 73 bug fixes and 24 improvements listed in the release notes above, the main focus was on performance improvements. Compilation and runtime performance improvements

From Java to Groovy : A small example to whet your appetite

sandbox — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:27:32 -0400

Glen Stampoultzis in his recent blog post talks about converting from Java to Groovy. If you are conversant with the topic this example and the illustration may look trivial, but if you are a beginner this post is sure to get you excited. It a clear and concise code walthrough.

Pre JavaOne Groovy/Grails Meetup Monday 5th

aalmiray — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:57:49 -0400

Jeff Brown timely announced that the G2One / NFJS Meetup will take place next Monday, just before JavaOne starts on Tuesday morning. Click the link for all of the details and be sure to click the "register" link. Registration is free and the event promises to be a load of fun.

From Ant to Gant

aalmiray — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:06:19 -0400

Andrew Glover is the first to report on Gant's latest trick: a converter from Ant to Gant. With this little script you'll be able to replace those ugly angle brackets with nice and cool Groovy code in no time.

Gant 1.2.0 released

russel_winder — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:38:16 -0400

Gant 1.2.0 has been released. There are some breaking changes compared to 1.1.2, but more importantly there are various internal changes as well as bug fixes. The people who raised the issues that drove the changes have been running the 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT for a while and indicated things work for them.The website at http://gant.codehaus.org now reflects this new Gant.

Gldapo 0.5.2 & Grails-ldap 0.2.1

aalmiray — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:58:07 -0400

Luke Daley has announced on the Groovy mailing lists that the latest versions of Gldapo and Grails-ldap are available. About Gldapo:

Groovy 1.5.6 installers available

aalmiray — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:46:00 -0400

Joachim Baumann has released the latest Windows Installer for Groovy.

Groovy 1.5.6 released

aalmiray — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:54:36 -0400

G2One and the Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.5.6, a bug fix release for the stable Groovy 1.5.x branch. A regression introduced in 1.5.5 was fixed, and 35 bugs have been resolved (generics, MOP, and joint compiler issues, better line information for IDE support, etc)

TOTD #31: CRUD Application using Grails - Hosted on GlassFish and MySQL

arungupta — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:02:43 -0400

TOTD #30 explained how to create CRUD application using Grails and hosted using in-built Jetty servlet engine and in-memory HSQLDB database. Jetty and HSQLDB are built into Grails and allows to start easily. You can also use GlassFish and MySQL for deploying your applications in production environment.

Venkat Subramaniam: Into the Groove

aalmiray — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is a well known speaker at the IT conference circuit, many of his talks present Groovy as the main topic. He recently published a book 'Programming Groovy" which looks to be a must read for everyone wanting to master Groovy metaprogramming. Continue reading to learn about Dr. Subramaniam's view on Groovy. Enjoy!

Alexandru Popescu: TestNG and Groovy

aalmiray — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:50:00 -0400

Alexandru Popescu is the co-founder of TestNG, the next generation testing framework for Java, which also happens to be Groovy friendly. Continue reading to learn about his thoughts on TestNG/Groovy and some other exciting topics. Enjoy!

TOTD #30: CRUD Application using Grails - Hosted on Jetty and HSQLDB

arungupta — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:02:05 -0400

JetGroovy 1.5 for IntelliJ IDEA is Out

ann — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:15:59 -0400

We are pleased to announce the general availability of JetGroovy 1.5. This popular Groovy development plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA has been extended with a number of highly anticipated features:

Groovy 1.5.5 released: compiler 3-5x faster

glaforge — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:55:32 -0400

G2One, Inc. and the Groovy development team are pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.5.5, a bug fix release of the 1.5.x stable branch.

Programming Groovy - Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer

daveklein — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:57:00 -0400

Getting Started with Grails on GlassFish

arungupta — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:09:54 -0400

This blog has published good amount of content on how Ruby-on-Rails applications can be deployed on GlassFish. Grails is another popular MVC-based framework that leverages the Groovy language. Basically, Grails : Groovy :: Rails : Ruby.

Star This! Tell Google You Want Java/Groovy in GAE

rick — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:47:06 -0400

Van Riper posted a good suggestion the other day which may warrant your attention. If you'd like to see support for Java and/or Groovy added to the new Google App Engine, then here's something you should do.

Introducing JMX Builder for Groovy

vmatters — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:59:57 -0400

After I attended the Groovy/Grails Experience in February this year, I realize that the Groovy builder pattern can be used to façade many other API's (not just Swing). So, I decide to create, yet another builder, for the JMX API and here it is!http://code.google.com/p/groovy-jmx-builder/

Build a Simple Grails App Using Oracle JDeveloper

harshadoak — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:48:41 -0400

New to Grails? Want to know what it's all about? Oracle JDeveloper provides ample indirect support to help you learn and use Grails, as this article shows.

Glen Smith: Somersaulting into Grails

aalmiray — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:54:00 -0400

Glen is an Aussie Groovy Stunt Programmer, responsible for groovyblogs.org and Gravl, a Grails powered blog engine. He picked Grails since the early beginnings so you can bet he knows a trick or two when it comes to tweaking a Grails app. Enjoy!

Future of Architecture: The Template

sdevijver — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:40:51 -0400

I remember like it was yesterday the day I was sitting at my desk back in 2005, watching the now famous Ruby on Rails screencast on how to create a blog in 15 minutes. It became the first screencast hit as far as I can tell. Three years later and after a lot of personal reflection I've boiled Rails' success down to two reasons:

Closures Solution: Include Groovy in the JDK?

geertjan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:34:26 -0400

The closures debate often seems to consist of two separate discussions—first there's the discussion around how best a closure could be expressed in Java; secondly there is a discussion around a meta question: "Should the Java language change at all, regardless of the benefits of doing so?" Here I, hesitantly, point to a direction that might lead somewhere, even if only to further...

Jason Rudolph: second leg of the Grails race

aalmiray — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:01:00 -0400

Jason Rudolph has been into Grails since the early beginnings, he is the author of Getting Started with Grails, the first (free!) book on the framework. Jason also has extensive experience with Ruby and Rails, which puts him in a privileged position to explain Grails' sweet and sour spots. Enjoy!