Tiago 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. :)
Archive for December, 2009
Groovy benchmarked against JRuby, Rhino and Jython
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Grails and OAuth example from Matt Raible
Monday, 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
Sunday, 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
Monday, 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.
