We’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.
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.
In this issue…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.
Michael Wall takes a closer look at integrating Maven in to your daily Grails life.
Jason Warner discusses the migration to Groovy and Grails for an enterprise development team, with all the lessons learned.
This month, Kirsten Schwark covers Groovy’s range operations.
Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein.
Dave Klein covers the ‘Bean Fields’ plugin.
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