Sure, I know – “write them yourself”. I don’t have time – too busy putting together GroovyMag for your reading pleasure The upcoming February issue will feature a piece by Mike Hugo on “How to write a Plugin”, so perhaps I’ll be able to get up to speed in March! In the meantime, however, these are two things I’ve come across recently which would probably make useful/cool Grails plugins.

Virtual Keyboard

This is a pretty nifty little javascript keyboard which you can attach to multiple text input boxes. The keyboard offers multiple language support (dozens of languages, and “right-to-left” typing, among other things). So, why would you use it? I suspect to avoid keyloggers, but there are probably other uses as well.

Twilio

Twilio is – well, how do I describe it? A VOIP proxy service? An phone application proxy? It’s a super easy way of building a phone-tree app, but the code lives on your server. The “press 1″ stuff lives at twilio.com, but they turn around and make web services calls to your app, which then gives twilio back whatever XML it needs. I’m not sure to what extent this could be made a “plugin” specifically, I just think it’s a really neat service that someone might be able to “plugify” for Grails beyond my limited thinking skills at this late hour.

Your ideas?

What Grails plugins would you like to see?

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