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Groovy, Sometimes You Still Need a Semicolon.

scottleber — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:22:27 +0000

Like Javascript, semicolons are optional in Groovy except for when they aren't optional. These examples are both pretty contrived, though I found both because they're actually something that I've written, and could both be written better. That's not really the point I'm making though. When something doesn't compile when it looks like it clearly should sometimes it's hard to track down why, and...

More Groovy Magic with Maven pom Files

mr_john_smart — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:07:45 +0000

Last time, I introduced some of the new Groovy support available in Maven 3, and looked at how you will be able to write your pom files in Groovy, or in other non-XML notations. In this article, we'll take a further look at what you can do with a Maven pom file written in Groovy. James Sugrue

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/31

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:51:50 +0000

ICANN, the nonprofit responsible for worldwide domain names and IP addresses, has decided to allow the introduction of non-Latin characters into domain names. ICANN chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, says its the biggest technical change to the Internet in four decades. The change will be especially welcome in Asia, where over 42 percent of world Internet users are located. Though some think...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

Mitch Pronschinske — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last. The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface instead of HAL. For a full walkthrough of the features, check out this guided tour of Ubutnu 9.10 "Karmic Koala." Who knew Koalas believed in Karma?

Top Open Source ESB Projects

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:23:49 +0000

In today's software markets, open source technologies are giving commercial products some stiff competition. Enterprise Service Busses are no exception. Don Rippert, the chief technology officer at Accenture says, "ESBs are software products that allow you to create a business process with web services running on different platforms." Rippert believes an ESB is essential for...

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29

Mitch Pronschinske — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The US Department of Defence released a memo saying that they allow and encourage the use of open source software. It took them six years to clarify this after a 2003 memorandum implied that the DoD shouldn't use open source. Yet another example of speedy government bureaucracy. This just in: "Will open source software in the Dept. of Defence lower taxes?"

The True and False of Groovy's AST Builder

hamletdrc — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:25:58 +0000

Last week saw three(!) conference sessions on Groovy AST Transformations. James Sugrue

SpringOne 2GX Kicks Off with Spring 3.0 release

Mitch Pronschinske — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:59:10 +0000

The release of the Spring 3.0 and a free developer edition of the SpringSource Tomcat Server will be announced today at the SpringOne 2GX conference. The new version of Spring's Java framework will be fully Java 5 based and have early support for Java EE 6. The SpringSource tc Server developer edition will feature a dashboard with real-time Spring application metrics.

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

Mitch Pronschinske — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:43:51 +0000

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday. Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been writing extensively on the capabilities and usage of NetBeans as an IDE and a platform. His research on the usage of the NetBeans platform has revealed a wide array of applications. It has led him to create his own acronym, YANPA (Yet...

Groovy Recipes Greasing the Wheels of Java

clark98108 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:48:39 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 0978739299 Book Author(s): Scott Davis Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf Publication Date: 2008 Rating ...

Secret Agents helping your code handle concurrency

vaclav — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:07:43 +0000

Among all the available options to safely and correctly manage shared state in concurrent programs, I've selected the concept of Agents for my today's post. I'll describe the principle and show use of Agents in Groovy, leveraging the GParallelizer library.

Grails in Action

alessios — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:39:35 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 1933988932 Book Author(s): Glen Smith Peter Ledbrook Publisher: Manning Publication Date: ...

Programming Groovy

ags — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:31:44 +0000

ISBN or ASIN: 1934356093 Cover Image: 51GvI20X08L._SS500_.jpg Book Author(s): Venkat Subramaniam Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ...

Interview: James Williams on Griffon

puredanger — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:04:56 +0000

The Strange Loop conference is a unique software developer conference in St.References Reference: Originally posted on the Strange Loop blog

Jump-start Griffon development with IntelliJ IDEA

vaclav — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:03:20 +0000

Leveraging the similarities between Grails and Griffon the IntelliJ IDEA team has recently updated Maia, the EAP-accesible preview of the next major IntelliJ IDEA version, with support for Griffon. Article Type: How-to