I just stumbled on easygsp, which aims to bring Groovy/GSP to more people by taking the dependance of a Java app server out of the equation. I would like to take a closer look at this in the next week or two, but if anyone has any experiences with this so far, please share them with me. groovy-lamp looks like another similar project, but I may be confusing the goals of each.
Interesting project – easygsp
January 19th, 2010
Grails Spy Plugin released
January 8th, 2010This looks pretty slick:
http://blog.jetztgrad.net/2010/01/released-grails-spy-plugin/
This isn’t at all related to the p6spy plugin, which allows you to monitor db calls in Grails. Rather, this allows you to inspect all the dynamic beans that are created at runtime in Grails.
You can grab the source from github, but take a look at the link above to see what sort of cool goodness you get with this plugin.
January 2010 GroovyMag now available
January 7th, 2010
Groovy Combinator Parsers
Ken Barclay demonstrates building a lexical parser with Groovy.
Groovy MetaObject Programming – Part 2
Craig Wickesser continues his exploration of the dark arts of metaobject programming.
Groovy Around the Globe – UK
Steve Dalton continues his look at the Groovy community around the world, this time looking at the United Kingdom.
Book Excerpt – Griffon in Action
Check out a section of the upcoming “Griffon in Action” book (Manning) by Andres Almiray, Danno Ferrin and Geertjan Wielenga.
Monthly Columns
Groovy Under the Hood – Groovy Lists
This month, Kirsten Schwark covers Groovy’s lists functionality.
Community news
Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.
Plugin Corner
Dave Klein covers the ‘Google Chart’ plugin.
Page count: 44
Groovy benchmarked against JRuby, Rhino and Jython
December 29th, 2009Tiago Fernandez has a nice writeup on a benchmark he did between Groovy, JRuby, Rhino and Jython. The verdict is generally a tie between JRuby and Rhino, with Groovy generally a second or third and Jython looking to be in last place on all 4 benchmarks. Personally, I would have liked to see Groovy 1.7 benchmarked instead of 1.6.7. Tiago acknowledges this discrepancy but points out that the 1.7 release notes don’t make any mention of significant speed improvements for 1.7. Here’s hoping that’ll change in the coming months, and the Groovy 1.8 (or 2.0?) will one day be the fastest around. :)
Grails and OAuth example from Matt Raible
December 28th, 2009Matt Raible has a nice write up on his blog about using Grails (1.2!) with his forked version of Grails-OAuth plugin and LinkedIn’s API. His live example is here (letting you log in with LinkedIn credentials or Twitter credentials), and the OAuth plugin can be downloaded from here.
New GR8 releases
December 27th, 2009We’ve been fortunate to have two new releases in Groovy world recently – Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2. I presume many/most of you already knew about these, but in case you didn’t, now you know. 
Thanks Groovy and Grails teams for your continued gr8 work!
I’m personally looking forward to the ‘named query’ support in Grails 1.2 (I’ve got a Grails 1.1 project I’ll be upgrading and refactoring soon!) and the improved memory usage in Grails 1.2 will be welcome as well.
December 2009 GroovyMag now available
December 7th, 2009
Using JNDI in Grails Applications
Join Damien Ferrand as he takes a closer look at JNDI and what it can do for your Grails architecting.
Groovy Metaprogramming
Craig Wickesser delves in to the black art of metaobject programming and demonstrates just how powerful Groovy can be.
Building a Grails Portal Part III
Joshua Davis wraps up his series on building a web portal with Grails.
Interview with Sven and Glen Part I
Damien sits down (virtually) with the hosts of the popular Grails Podcast for their insights on the GR8 community.
Groovy Under the Hood
This month, Kirsten Schwark covers Groovy’s collections functionality.
Community News
Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.
Plugin Corner
Dave Klein covers the ‘Constraints’ plugin.
GroovyMag November 2009 is now available!
November 3rd, 2009
In this issue…
Groovy Around the Globe
Steve Dalton gives us part 1 in a multi-part series looking at gr8 users and groups around the world. First up – Australia and New Zealand.
Grails and Maven
Michael Wall takes a closer look at integrating Maven in to your daily Grails life.
Enterprise Development with Groovy and Grails
Jason Warner discusses the migration to Groovy and Grails for an enterprise development team, with all the lessons learned.
Groovy Under the Hood
This month, Kirsten Schwark covers Groovy’s range operations.
Community news
Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.
Plugin Corner
Dave Klein covers the ‘Bean Fields’ plugin.
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October 16th, 2009October’s GroovyMag is now available!
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