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

Countdown To Grails 2.0: Static Resources

Peter Ledbrook continues his series of posts on upcoming features with the next Grails release, now titled “Countdown to Grails 2.0.” He gives an excellent introduction to Grails’ Resources plugin, which is to be included in Grails 2.0 apps by default.

GradleSite plugin

Rene Groeschke has put together a Gradle plugin for generating project websites. From the README: “This plugin was originally written for a live demo at the GR8conf 2011 in Europe. At the moment this plugin is just a kind of a wrapper for the mvn site generation as some projects reported, that the missing gradle site support is a blocker for them. Later this plugin should move from a plain wrapper to a first class website generation of gradle (multi)project builds.” The source is on GitHub.

Getting Started With Grails And MySQL

Andrew Taylor walks us through the process of converting a new Grails app’s setup to use MySQL from the default (HSQLDB).

Creating Ratpack Apps With The Gradle Application Plugin

James Williams demonstrates how Gradle’s Application plugin can be used to run Ratpack apps (as an alternative to building an executable or using the Groovy script).

“Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0”

Yesterday, Graeme Rocher announced the renaming of the next release of Grails — which was to have been 1.4 — to 2.0. (The Grails Roadmap has been updated for this change.) From the announcement: “This should not significantly impact timelines of the  release, but we do feel there are too many great things in the GitHub master branch for it to be a mere 1.4 release.” There is a list of new features to be released as part of the next milestone in the mailing list post.

Griffon 0.9.3 beta 2 released; Griffon moves to GitHub

The second beta release of Griffon 0.9.3, also announced yesterday, includes such updates as DSL / autocompletion support for IntelliJ IDEA / Eclipse and several new AST transformations. (There are release notes at the CodeHaus.) Along with this update came the news that Griffon’s source has moved to GitHub. If you have anything worth adding to / using for improvement in the framework, fork the project and code away.

Preview of Grails plugin for SmartGWT

The folks at Isomorphic Software have posted about a preview version of their SmartGWT plugin for Grails. This includes a nice tutorial (with screenshots!) for getting started with the plugin.

Geb 0.6.0 released

With the news of the 0.6.0 release of Geb — a Groovy browser automation solution — comes the news of a new site for the project: gebish.org. Luke Daley’s announcement includes the feature highlights of the new release, among them improved jQuery integration, the  Direct Download API, support for build-related configuration, a TestNG adapter, and many more which I must cease to list lest the link to the announcement become pointless. You may want to check out the new site for much more.

Tools Used At A Grails Startup

Tomas Lin describes the tools & infrastructure in use at Secret Escapes, a “private sales travel” site built on Groovy and Grails.

Redis, Groovy And Grails Presentation At GR8Conf 2011 And GUM

Ted Naleid has posted the slides from his presentation on Grails & Redis, which he’s given at both GUM and GR8Conf.

Plugin releases

Grails Pusher Plugin — 0.1: provide wrapper for the Pusher REST API

Grails YUI 2 Widget Plugin — 0.1: allow creation of YUI Widgets through taglibs

Grails Transaction Management Plugin — 0.1.1: allow advanced management of transactions in Grails

Grails Flyway Plugin — 0.1.2: provide integration with Flyway

Grails Cookie Plugin — 0.2: extends request and response objects found in controllers and filters; add methods to easily set, get, and delete cookies

SpringOne2GX registration now open

SpringSource and the NFJS Symposium Series have opened registration for SpringOne 2GX, which is to be held in Chicago on October 25-28, and which will have such groovy speakers as Venkat Subramaniam, Tim Berglund, Jeff Brown, Scott Davis, Glen Smith, Andres Almiray, Graeme Rocher, Guillaume Laforge, Dierk König, Paul King, and Ken Sipe. You can register for this event at the SpringOne 2GX site.

Getting Started With Grails, Part 3

Peter Ledbrook has posted the third in a series of introductory Grails screencasts. In this, the latest, he introduces custom GSP tags.

Grails Testing Improvements

Lucas Ward’s post on the unit testing improvements coming in Grails 1.4 (and his remaining complaints regarding integration testing).

Google Analytics Page Tracking In Grails Web Flow

A post on the Object Partners blog, showing how to pass meaningful URLs to Google Analytics in a Grails web flow by means of a GSP tag.

Running Custom SQL In Grails Database Migration Plugin Changesets

Tomas Lin shows how to use custom SQL with Grails’ Database Migration plugin.

Rizzo: a Groovy static site generator

Rizzo is a sort of a small Groovy script for static site generation. The code is available on GitHub.

Plugin releases

Grails Fitnesse Plugin — 1.0: use the popular Open Source testing framework Fitnesse in combination with Grails

Grails Full Calendar Plugin — 1.5.1.0: use Adam Shaw’s Full Calendar jQuery plugin with Grails

Grails GSP Tags Plugin — 0.2.2: declare tags in a GSP in grails-app/taglib/

Grails Searchable Plugin — 0.6: add search to Grails through Compass and Lucene

Grails Spock Plugin — 0.5: use Spock with Grails

Grails Regen Plugin — 0.2.13: a generation framework for Grails scaffolding

Grails File Uploader Plugin — 1.2: handle file uploads in Grails

Grails Atmosphere Plugin — 0.4.0: provide integration with the Atmosphere project