This Week in Grails (2011-02)

Another interesting week for Groovy- and Grails-related news.

Translations of this post:

• Traducción al español
• Grails每周观察
• Este artigo em Português
• Traduction française

Miscellaneous Items

• Using multiple datasources in a Grails project: Datasources plugin
  • Using the Datasources plugin (which I’ve almost finished merging into Grails core for 1.4)
• What is “Making Java Groovy”, anyway?
• Groovy/Grails DSL testing
• https://www.bkool.com/ uses Grails
• Gaelyk 0.6 Released
• Regex Merging of Structures in Groovy: Revisited
• Grails 1.4 is now using Groovy 1.8.0-beta-3 beta
  • I’m looking forward to trying out the cool new features in Groovy 1.8
• Database Migration Plugin v0.1 Release
  • I released a new database migrations plugin earlier this week (based on Liquibase 2.0). This is the official Grails database migrations plugin, and liquibase and autobase plugin users are encouraged to switch to this plugin
• Interesting but impractical post about Groovy + AST transform + bytecode
• STS 2.5.2 released
• Das Forum ist tot
  • RIP
• Impressive collection of Grails interview questions
• Handling of Different Injection Attacks in Grails
  • From a few months ago but good information
• http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-10
• http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-13
• http://observatoriodegrails.com/hoy/?date=2011-01-14
• Tomcat 6.0.30 Released
• Tomcat 7.0.6 Released – First Stable Build
• Spring Web Services 2.0 Released
  • Not directly Grails-related, but useful in Grails (and it could use a plugin)
• Using jQuery DataTables In Grails
• Using the Log4j MDC in Grails

Plugins

There were 4 new plugins released:

• aws version 0.1. Provide easy access to simpler functions of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• database-migration version 0.1. Official Grails plugin for database migrations
• google-url-shortener version 0.1. Use Google’s URL shortener service
• jquery-json version 2.2. Supplies jQuery JSON resources, and depends on the jQuery plugin to include the core jquery libraries

There were also several updated plugins:

• ajaxflow version 0.1.16. Enables Ajaxified Webflows
• attachmentable version 0.2.1. Provides a generic way to add and manage attachments
• dbunit-operator version 1.4. Create initial data with the help of DbUnit
• elasticsearch version 0.13.0-b. Adds support for the http://www.elasticsearch.com/ RESTful search engine
• freemarker-tags version 0.5.5. Use Grails Dynamic Tag Libraries as Freemarker directives
• gmetrics version 0.3.1. Provides static code analysis for Groovy code
• gsp-arse version 1.3. My favorite plugin name. Adds parsing of resource files (e.g. javascript, css) from the base path directory as GSP files so you can use tags and data binding
• jasper version 1.2. Enables use of JasperReports
• jquery-plugin-authoring version 1.0.2. Template to make creating jQuery plugins easier
• liquibase version 1.9.3.6. Liquibase database migration plugin (users should switch to the new database-migration plugin)
• maven-publisher version 0.7.5. Publish Grails projects and plugins to local and remote Maven repositories
• multi-tenant-core version 1.0.3. Supports multiple ‘customers’ (or tenants) from one installation of a Grails application
• ofchart version 0.6.3. Open Flash Chart Plugin
• screencasts version 0.5. Upload, manage and display screencasts
• twitter-checker version 0.2. Monitors Twitter for events including new followers and unfollows in your account, new RTs of you made by other users, and new mentions to you made by other users
• weceem-spring-security version 1.0-RC2. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication

Interesting Tweets

• @sho1975: i really love the “did you mean” function of #grails. I just typed clear instead of clean. Did you mean clean (among others)? #nice
• @epragt: Just came back from a callcenter to see end users use our #grails app. More than 600 concurrent logged in users, and next month the double!
• @rgomis: #Grails sigue sorprendiéndome día a día
• @daveklein: If there’s no Groovy/Grails/Griffon user group in your town help get one started. Check out http://g2groups.net
• @tomaslin: Hey, new grails versions are now being downloaded from Amazon s3 instead of Codehaus’ overloaded servers – nice!
• @javajudd: The FLOSS podcast (http://www.twit.tv/floss147) mentions Grails since the Big Blue Button (http://bigbluebutton.org) project uses it.
• @aalmiray: #grails google url shortener plugin by @sebi2706 relies on the REST plugin. Gotta love code reuse via plugins
• @milcom_: #Grails Rule 34: If there is an API, there is a grails plugin of it.
• @craigburke1: New version of #STS has really nice #grails features. So long #netbeans you bloated beast.
• @daveklein: “give a man a smiley face and he’ll smile for a day, teach a man Grails and he’ll smile the rest of his life” @jeffscottbrown #codemash
• @danielglauser: Okay, the latest Grails STS support rocks. You can enter Groovy/Grails code in the display tab and evaluate it at debug time. Grails REPL?
• @wanswins: Want to test Amazon Cloud for free? http://aws.amazon.com/free/ >> you can run Grails!
• @berngp: No need to wait for #grails 1.4 to use H2 (gr eg. on setting up the web.xml x env too) http://bit.ly/gw83jA (via @burtbeckwith)
• @rgomis: good way to reuse code in your #Grails projects is to create tag libraries, you can found some interesting ones here http://goo.gl/ahHDL
• @emedinam: Haciendo #cuestamenos mucho más “elástico” con #elasticsearch y su plugin para #grails – http://cuestamenos.com
• @graemerocher: LOL “I think if Grails had been developed in Germany it would have been called Groovyschnellentwicklungsystem. ” #mailinglistgem
• @sebi2706: check http://t.co/2lC9w5k to see what kind of analytics goo.gl can provide, this is also available with the #grails google shortener plugin
• @marcoVermeulen: Once again I had an immensly productive day thanks to #grails.

Jobs

• @michaeldowling: Client in LA hiring star Java, Groovy/Grails, Ruby developers NOW. Exp in Agile a must. DM me to connect you to them.
• “Sexy Security Project”
• 2 month London contract
• @mitchmalone: Any Java/groovy/grails developers out there looking for a great opportunity? DM me! (Plz RT)
• 6 month contract in London for a “Media Giant”
• FTE position in Banking in Brisbane AU
• Sr. Java/Grails Consultant at Object Partners in Minneapolis
• Web Development for a Faculty Information System in Grails / Java at the University of Zurich
• 1-year contract in NYC
• Looking for freelance grails developers
• Orange & Bronze are hiring in the Philippines
• @Perseco_IT_Jobs: Java Spring Developer 2 roles – Manchester & Leeds – £40k to £50k – Spring MVC / Hibernate / TDD – Grails a bonus – Call Simon 0161 2350900
• Programador JavaEE – Grails (Brazil)
• @GCSdigitalmedia: Any Grails Developers, Strong Java Developers, Django/Python Developers, .net Developers looking for work at top digital agencys? If so ple…
• @apsinkus: Startup I know is looking for a full time GRAILS developer. DM or @ me for details.
• @serge_a_storms: I’m looking to hire a Grails/Java/ExtJs developer in Sarasota. Ping me if interested. #Grails

User groups and Conferences

• @glaforge: Latest #gaelyk presentation from the Paris #groovy #grails user group http://slidesha.re/fG2WSQ
• Twitter in 40 Minutes
  • Boston Grails Meetup
• Spring IO 2011 in Madrid, Spain
• Code Jam, January 17th
  • London GGUG
• Introduction to Groovy and Grails
  • Montreal JUG
• Deploying and Running Grails in the Cloud
  • San Francisco Grails Meetup
• A closer look at Clojure
  • Queensland JVM Group
• @grailsmx: Primer Hackergarten en la Cuidad de México http://bit.ly/fFJziP
• @PeterBell: Here are the slides from last nights NYC Grails “Groovy Testing Srategies” preso. http://bit.ly/g7J2GK Much more depth at #nfjs #spock #geb
• Gaelyk, Grails, and GAE
  • Groovy & Grails Meetup Aarhus
• @stevegood: Posted my notes and a recording of my Intro to #Grails Part 1 presentation from last week’s @dfw2gug meeting http://bit.ly/grailsintropt1