groovy-wslite: Groovy library providing “no-frills SOAP and REST webservice clients”
This has been around for some time, but was just brought to my attention by Bob Brown at transentia: groovy-wslite, a Groovy web service library by John Wagenleitner. There are fine examples of both SOAP and REST clients in the project’s README on GitHub.
Countdown To Grails 2.0: Database Migrations
Peter Ledbrook is back at the SpringSource blog continuing his series on the new features coming in Grails 2.0. This time, it is a feature we can use in the current stable version (1.3.x): database migration, which is based on the plugin by Burt Beckwith. (The plugin, in turn, is based on Liquibase.)
I Think I Get Spock Mocks Now
Ken Kousen points out a misunderstanding regarding the mocking in Groovy’s Spock framework.
Our Grails Stats: But What Are Yours?
Erik Pragt at Jworks has posted the stats (derived from a modified version of the Grails stats script) from a Grails project which his team has been working on “for over a year now, with, on average, around 8 people including testers.” He’s looking for others to contribute their project stats (and there are some interesting ideas for hacking Stats.groovy in the comments).
A Quick Intro To Gradle
R.J. Salicco at thejavajar gives a very quick introduction to Gradle, the Groovy build tool.
Plugin releases
Grails Inviter Plugin — 0.1: a simple way to invite people
Grails Spring Security SAML Plugin — 1.0.0 M1: SAML 2.x support for the Spring Security Plugin
Netbeans Griffon Plugin — updated for Netbeans 7.0.1
