SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

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This Week in Grails (2011-41)
2011-10-17 00:51:00.0

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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Translations of this post:

 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

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This Week in Grails (2011-40)
2011-10-10 09:40:00.0

Cédric Champeau has added a new Groovy Enhancement Proposal (GEP) for static type checking. This is for an optional stricter “grumpy” mode of Groovy similar to Groovy++ where the compiler will generate more warnings and errors to give developers feedback about problems earlier than if they were in traditional Groovy.

Lots of job activity this week, including five listings at Taulia in San Francisco.

Only two more weeks until SpringOne/2GX – it should be another great conference this year.

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 was one new plugin released:

  • recurly version 0.98. Communicate with Recurly servers

and 13 updated plugins:

  • cloud-foundry version 1.2. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
  • cloud-support version 1.0.6. Support plugin to help cloud plugins update service provider connection information from the cloud environment
  • compass-sass version 0.4.3. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
  • dbconsole version 1.1. Provides a web based database console for pre-1.4 apps
  • fsm version 0.6.5. Finite State Machine behavior
  • html-validator version 0.3. Uses JTidy to do sanity checks on html files
  • image-builder version 0.2. A simple image builder
  • new-doc version 0.2.1. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
  • sharding version 0.6. Defines multiple database shards to horizontally scale data
  • spring-social-core version 0.1.29. Allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter
  • spring-social-twitter version 0.1.28. Connect your applications with Twitter
  • taggable version 1.0. Adds support for associating tags with domain classes
  • tropo-webapi-grails version 0.2.1. Use Tropo’s cloud API to add phone, SMS and Instant Messaging support

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This Week in Grails (2011-39)
2011-10-03 16:30:00.0

Graeme announced that the release date for Grails 2.0 has been pushed back to November since we’re integrating Spring 3.1 and their schedule has slipped. This is a bummer for users who want to get their hands on the 2.0 final release, but good news since we’ll have some extra time to fix more bugs and polish things.

The Gradle team has started their own “This Week in Gradle” series. This is great news for me since I don’t actively follow things in the Gradle space (yet anyway) but a weekly summary will be very useful to keep up on where things are headed. Add their RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader to be automatically notified of new posts.

The Groovy development team will increase by one this week. Cédric Champeau will be starting Monday as a Groovy developer at SpringSource. This is great news for Groovy.

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 11 new plugins released:

  • gordon-flash version 0.5. Protects flash scope from being cleared out unnecessarily
  • hibernate-spatial version 0.0.4. Provides support for using Hibernate Spatial in Grails
  • hibernate-spatial-hdb version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for H2/GeoDB
  • hibernate-spatial-mysql version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for MySQL
  • hibernate-spatial-oracle version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for Oracle
  • hibernate-spatial-postgresql version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for PostgreSQL/PostGIS
  • hibernate-spatial-sqlserver version 0.0.4. Hibernate Spatial Provider for Microsoft SQL Server
  • website-optimizer version 0.1. Provides tags to easily integrate Google Website Optimizer experiments into your Grails application
  • jquery-mobile version 0.1. Provides jQuery mobile framework resource files
  • memcached version 1.0.1. Helps integrate Memcached as the Hibernate 2nd-level cache provider
  • cloud-support version 1.0.3. Support plugin to help cloud plugins update service provider connection information from the cloud environment

and 7 updated plugins:

  • console-enhancements version 0.4. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
  • google-visualization version 0.4.2. Provides a taglib for the interactive charts of the Google Visualization API
  • notifications version 0.2.5. Implements a publish-subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels
  • ruby version 1.0.M2. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
  • twitter-bootstrap version 1.3.0.6. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
  • weceem-spring-security version 1.1. Provides the glue needed to make Weceem plugin use Spring Security for authorisation and authentication
  • yui-minify-resources version 0.1.2. Minifies static css and js resources using the YUI Compressor library

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This Week in Grails (2011-38)
2011-09-26 09:31:00.0

Bobby Warner is attempting to make hell freeze over with his new Ruby Plugin. Not sure what to call this – “JRuby on Grails”? This is a followup to his post on Polyglot Grails.

This week brings even more “Groovy Goodness” posts from Mr. Haki:

Joachim Baumann is writing a book in German about Groovy, and blogging in English along the way. Check out his series of posts on AST transformations:

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 2 new plugins released:

  • ruby version 1.0.M1. Use Ruby code in Grails via JRuby
  • zoo-keeper version 0.1. Helper plugin to make working with ZooKeeper more Groovyish

and 12 updated plugins:

  • ajax-uploader version 0.5. Tag Library which implements Andrew Valum’s excellent file uploader
  • cloud-foundry version 1.1.1. Integrates Cloud Foundry’s cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line
  • cloud-foundry-ui version 1.1. Provides a basic monitoring UI for Cloud Foundry applications
  • console-enhancements version 0.3. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
  • cucumber version 0.1.0. Test your Grails apps with Cucumber
  • jasper version 1.2.2. Enables use of JasperReports
  • jesque-web version 0.11.M5. Web interface to view and manage jesque queues, jobs and workers
  • json-rest-api version 1.0.10. JSON RESTful API for GORM
  • lesscss-resources version 0.6.1. Optimises the use of http://www.lesscss.org css files, compiling .less files into their .css counterprt, and place the css into the processing chain to be available to the other resource plugin features
  • new-doc version 0.2.0. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
  • uploadr version 0.5.0. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
  • yui-minify-resources version 0.1.1. Minifies static css and js resources using the YUI Compressor library

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This Week in Grails (2011-37)
2011-09-18 19:12:00.0

Graeme’s been doing some very cool stuff for 2.0 with a new extension to the Criteria query DSL, adding a where method. Check out the updated docs for the syntax and example queries – it’s a very intuitive and fluent approach to querying.

Mr. Haki is back after a bit of a hiatus with five new “Groovy Goodness” posts:

Lots of jobs this week. There are a few reposts but most are new – it’s a good time to be a Grails developer.

Starting this week these posts will be translated into Italian thanks to Luca Canducci. Many thanks to Luca for volunteering to do this translation, and of course to Aitor Alzola, Jian Hu, and Paulo Pereira for the Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese translations.

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 7 new plugins released:

  • horn-jquery version 1.0. Provides resources and tags to use the HORN specification for embedding your JS data model in your HTML pages
  • profile-template version 0.1. Captures template render calls and displays call stack, template time summary, and a visual display of the call graph
  • twitter-bootstrap version 0.2. Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework resource files
  • proxool version 0.1. Proxool jdbc connection pool plugin
  • console-enhancements version 0.2. Enhances the grails console output for better visibility
  • image-builder version 0.1. A simple image builder
  • template-cache version 0.1. A GSP template rendering cache

and 17 updated plugins:

  • birt-report version 3.7.0.1. Embeds reports created using the BIRT Report Engine into your application
  • compass-sass version 0.4. Compass, SASS and SCSS support for Grails. Automatically compiles .scss/.sass during run-app, and adds other framework functionality
  • drools-gorm version 0.5.4. Integrates Drools 5.2 and jBPM 5 and provides persistent storage using GORM
  • external-config-reload version 0.4.5. 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
  • geolocation version 0.2. Adds HTML5 geolocation support and offers some utility methods to calculate distances and range checks
  • gorm-native-finders version 0.2. Query domain objects using native Groovy closures
  • jesque version 0.11.M5. Groovier approach to using jesque
  • jesque-web version 0.11.M3. Web interface to view and manage jesque queues, jobs and workers
  • navigation version 1.3.1. Implements simple menu navigation using convention
  • new-doc version 0.1.2. A backport of the additional functionality offered in the doc command in Grails 2.0.x
  • plugin-config version 0.1.5. Simplifies plugin configuration tasks
  • spreadshirt version 0.5. Wrapper for the Spreadshirt API
  • spring-social-core version 0.1.7. Allows you to connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter
  • spring-social-twitter version 0.1.6. Connect your applications with Twitter
  • symmetricds version 2.4.0. Embeds the SymmetricDS synchronization engine
  • uploadr version 0.4.8. HTML5 Drag and Drop file uploader
  • zkui version 0.3.3. Seamlessly integrates ZK with Grails’ infrastructures; uses the Grails’ infrastructures such as GSP, controllers rather than zk’s zul as in ZKGrails plugin

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