“Groovy Goodness” by Mr. Haki is back

Mr. Haki has returned to his series on Groovy language features after a few months away. Many of the bits he discusses are new in Groovy 1.8, and all are worth the reading.

Patching bean-fields On 2.0.0.M2

The bean-fields plugin by Marc Palmer is messed up a bit in Grails 2.0 M2 by a breaking change in that release. This will not be an issue in RC1. In the meantime: Glen Smith explains how to resolve it with a simple modification to the taglib.

Groovy On GitHub

This summer, the Groovy team (with help from Matthew McCullough) moved Groovy’s source to GitHub. See the links in this post by Guillaume Laforge.

Plugin releases

Grails Alfresco Plugin — 0.5: integrate Alfresco with a Grails application

Grails Horn Plugin — 1.0: provide JS libraries and tags for embedding data in HTML content

Grails Twitter Bootstrap Plugin — 0.2: provide Twitter Bootstrap files

Grails Image Builder Plugin — 0.1: provide a simple image builder

Grails Geolocation Plugin — 0.2: add HTML 5 geolocation support

Grails External Configuration Plugin — 0.4.5: reload external configuration files

Grails Spreadshirt Plugin — 0.5: integrate Spreadshirt API features into a Grails application

Grails Cucumber Plugin — 0.1.0: test Grails applications with Cucumber

Grails GSP Template Rendering Plugin — 0.1: cache rendering of a GSP or fragment of a GSP

Grails Template Profiler Plugin — 0.1: profile GSP template rendering time, etc.

Grails Console Enhancement Plugin — 0.2: enhance Grails console output for better visibility

Grails Bean Fields Plugin — 1.0 RC3: provide tags for rendering form fields for domain and command objects

CodeNarc-Eclipse: Eclipse integration for CodeNarc

Yesterday, René Scheibe announced the first version of the Eclipse plugin for CodeNarc, Groovy’s static analysis tool. You can see the project on SourceForge.net.

These two weeks in Discobot

Erik Pragt has put up another update on Discobot, the ongoing project whose end is to get Groovy running on Android. The Jworks folks are building both developer tools for this and a demo Groovy project, which they have been successfully installing on the Android emulator. See the post for the project’s current status.

GroovyHelp 3.1.0 GA released

Daniel Sun has released GroovyHelp 3.1.0 GA. GroovyHelp is a Java API viewer for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This release includes, as I suspect is usual, performance improvements, among other changes. If you have any issues or suggestions, you can post them at the Google Code site.

Griffon 0.9.3 released

The Griffon team has announced their 0.9.3 release. In this release, Groovy support is upgraded to 1.8, and Java support is “fully revamped.” Andres Almiray has posted the 0.9.3 New & Noteworthy on his blog; to quote directly: “Looking at the runtime enhancements, there’s been a lot of work to make the size of the runtime library as small as possible. Griffon 0.9.3 is approximately 25% smaller and it even includes new features!” Get a fine summary of many new features and improvements from the blog post. There are full release notes at the CodeHaus.

Plugin releases

Grails Shiro User Interface Plugin — 1.0 beta3: provide a basic user interface for the Shiro plugin

Grails Uploadr Plugin — 0.4.2: HTML 5 drag-and-drop file uploading

Grails YUI Minify Plugin — 0.1: minify static CSS and JS resources using the YUI Compressor library

Grails BIRT Report Plugin — 3.7.0.0: embed BIRT Report Engine reports in a Grails application

Grails Browser Detection Plugin — 0.2: provide service and tag library for browser detection

Grails Drools GORM Plugin — 0.5.2: integrate Drools 5.2 and jBPM 5 with Grails

Grails Growler Plugin — 0.2: use jQuery’s jGrowl plugin to allow Growl-like notifications from remote function calls

Grails jQuery File Upload Plugin — 0.2: provide resources and tags for Sebastian Tschan’s jQuery File Uploader

Grails ZK UI Plugin — 0.3.1: integrate the ZK framework with Grails, using Grails infrastructure

Grails TinyMCE Plugin — 3.4.4: integrate TinyMCE JavaScript WYSIWYG editor with Grails

Grails 2.0 M1 released

This week, the Grails development team released the first milestone of Grails 2.0. There is “brand new console ouput,” a very nice interactive mode, new test and documentation templates, Groovy 1.8, the ability to declare controller actions as methods, HTML5 scaffolding, and a great many other things added in this release. There are “release notes” (more a list of helpful links) at grails.org, and there is a good section (appropriately titled “What’s new in Grails 2.0?”) on these additions in the docs.

Linked Ratpack: a new linked data microframework

Al Baker at Linked Java has announced Linked Ratpack: a microframework for linked data. The code is based on a fork of Ratpack, and is available on GitHub. See the blog post for a good introduction.

Groovy CodeNarc: How To Write A Rule

Hamlet D’Arcy has posted a new screencast on groovycasts.org — “Groovy CodeNarc: How To Write A Rule.”

Plugin  releases

Grails Spring Security Twitter Plugin — 0.3: extends the Spring Security Core plugin, adding Twitter authentication

Prototype Grails Plugin — 1.0: integrates Prototype, Scriptaculous, and Rico JavaScript libraries with Grails

Grails Notifications Plugin — 0.2.4: implement publish/subscribe model to push information to subscribers through different communication channels

Grails Plugin Config Plugin — 0.1.3: simplify plugin configuration tasks

Grails GSP Content Buffer Plugin — 1.0: provide taglib method used to insert page fragments anywhere in a GSP before rendering

Grails Resources Plugin — 1.0.2: resource management framework

Grails Release Plugin — 1.0.0 RC3: publish Grails plugins to public or private repositories