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This Week in Grails (2013-14)

Posted by: Burt Beckwith on 2013-04-14 11:02:00.0

SpringSource has moved from VMware to EMC as part of Pivotal. Check out Adrian Colyer’s blog post for information about how this will affect Grails, Groovy, and Spring and what the future looks like for us.

The Groovy team did an extensive interview with ZeroTurnaround, lots of interesting stuff there.

Happy Birthday to Grails, the 0.1 release was 7 years ago.

I wrote a blog post about a new plugin that integrates Netty with Grails. It will probably take an integration into Grails core to see real benefits, but there should be some opportunities to improve scalability and performance with this plugin.

If you want to keep up with these “This Week in Grails” posts you can access them directly via their category link or in an RSS reader with the feed for just these posts.

Translations of this post:

 Miscellaneous Items
 Plugins
 Interesting Tweets
 Jobs
 User groups and Conferences

Plugins

There were 3 new plugins released:

  • domain-locking version 0.3. Provides an easy way to use optimistic/pessimistic lock
  • nettymvc version 0.1. Adds support for using Netty in Grails
  • typescript version 0.4.1. Helps you manage typescript code in your Grails application

and 16 updated plugins:

  • facebook-sdk version 0.4.10. Allows your application to use the Facebook Platform and develop Facebook apps on Facebook.com or on web sites (with Facebook Connect)
  • file-server version 0.2. Serves files from any directories on disk
  • force-response-download version 0.1.5. Forces the browser to open a dialog for downloading content produced within controller actions
  • geasyui version 0.8. Supplies jQuery EasyUI resources and taglibs
  • geb version 0.9.0. Geb is a library for headless web browsing on the JVM, suitable for automation and functional web testing
  • gorm-interceptors version 0.1.1. Interceptors for GORM methods (excluding find, countBy, addTo, removeFrom methods)
  • gson version 1.1.3. Provides alternate JSON (de)serialization using Google’s Gson library
  • handlebars-resources version 0.3.6. Supports using Handlebars.js templates with the Grails Resources Plugin
  • plastic-criteria version 0.8. Mock Grails Criteria for Unit Tests
  • remote-pagination version 0.4.3. Provides tags for pagination and to sort columns without page refresh using Ajax and loads only the list of objects needed
  • sharding version 1.0. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
  • slug-generator version 0.3.1. Generates unique slugs for String properties, for example to generate unique ‘nice’ urls for access to domain objects
  • spring-security-twitter version 0.5. Twitter authentication as extension to the Spring Security Core plugin
  • uploadr version 0.7.2. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
  • vaadin version 1.7.3. Adds Vaadin (http://vaadin.com/) integration
  • zkui version 0.5.6. Seamlessly integrates ZK with Grails’ infrastructures; uses the Grails’ infrastructures such as GSP, controllers rather than zk’s zul as in ZKGrails plugin

Interesting Tweets

Jobs

User groups and Conferences

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About Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith

Burt Beckwith has been a software developer for 15 years, most of that as a JVM developer, and for the last five years working with Grails and Groovy. He is a core developer on the Grails team at SpringSource, and has created over 40 Grails plugins. Burt is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups where he shares his passion for Grails and other Groovy-based technologies, in particular those that are related to persistence, security, and performance. He is the author of "Programming Grails" and blogs at http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/

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