Grails Diary - Week 2 and 3 in 2016

25 January 2016

This is a two week edition, as I was busy visiting India and especially GR8Conf India last week. What a couple of weeks, the Groovy Ecosystem is indeed alive as the amount of news will reveal.

The Grails team at OCI have released Grails 3.0.12, with some significant startup time improvements, due to a change in classes scanned at the classpath. Read the release notes for hints on upgrading.
The second release candidate of Grails 3.1.0.RC2 is also ready, where the Release Notes reveals better profile support, a new angularJS profile, GORM 5 suite and much more.
Along with Grails 3.1, the deprecated filters support will be removed, but may find its way into a plugin. Jeff Scott Brown was searching for someone to make a contribution for this. The task is Pull Filters Support Out Of Core And Into Separate Plugin, including the removed code in this project, removed from core here.

The heroes of the week must be Matt Sheehan, Eric Helgeson and Bobby Warner for building a plugin portal for Grails 3 plugins: grails-plugins.org. It comes with better searching and sorting than the bintray page.

Sapan Parikh has made a sample application using the new AngulaeJS profile for Grails 3.1, demoing routing with a controller.

The GPars project for concurrency and parallelism has an updated website, which is really cool looking (and a huge upgrade from the old): http://gpars.website

The first release candidate for Gradle 2.11-rc-1 is ready. Improvements continue for the new software model and continuous build. Also Gradle related; you should follow @DailyGradle on twitter for tips on using Gradle, by Schalk Cronjé.

On SDKMan, all the above releases are of course available, and also Ant is now a candidate.
Even better, the switch extension command, that automatically detects a projects Grails or Griffon version is now also working for Grails 3, thanks to a pull request by Ronny Løvtangen (hero of the week #2)

In the Groovy world, Guillaume has answered a couple of good questions on Quora:

The first Ratpack book is now complete! Sorry Dan Woods you were not fast enough, Mr Haki's Ratpacked Notebook is available on leanpub
Ken and Baruch gave Dan a hard time in the latest Groovy Podcast, ignoring the time it takes them between podcasts ;) It is however as always fun to listen to. Dan Woods says "Learning Ratpack" is on schedule for a March publish

In other book related news, Kostis Kapelonis, the author of "Java Testing with Spock" points out errata should be posted here.

GR8Conf EU and Gradle will bring a Gradle miniSummit to Copenhagen on June 1st-3rd. The call for paper is still open, for both GR8Conf EU, GR8Conf US and a new mini conference in Warsaw, the GR8Day Warsaw on March 19th.

For Greach, there is one week left for buying early bird tickets.

GR8Conf India

This year I had the pleasure of visiting GR8Conf India for the first time. It is also the first time with that name, as the conference was called Grailsconf before.

It is an excellent venue, organised perfectly by a the crew from To the New Digital. Roni and Manoj reminded everyone in their opening speach that conferences are a great oportunity to network and meet new people.
This was the first time Burt Beckwith gave a keynote at a conference! With some historic insights into the Grails project, and his take on the 'State of the Union' of Grails.

The event was in two tracks, both live streamed on the #fame app, that Himanshu Seth also gave a great presentation on, and had thousinds of viewers. The event was a mix of Indian and foreign speakers, including Burt, Paul King, Søren Glasius, Naresha K and myself. I've collected some of the slides and material below, and the talks should be available on Youtube at a later point in time.

In all ways, GR8Conf India exceeded my expectations! And I had not figured that it was at the speakers dinner I would learn a new ritual: The Captains Game, but it was fun. I'm not the only one impressed, see the following reviews:

The Slides etc. from GR8COnf India are here

 

Podcasts and Videos of Presentations

Blogs, Articles, etc.

New Grails 3 Plugins

Updated Grails 3 Plugins

New Grails 2 Plugins

  • GR8 CRM Invoice Management UI This plugin is a companion plugin to the crm-invoice plugin. It provides a Twitter Bootstrap based user interface for invoice management in GR8 CRM applications.
  • GR8 CRM Invoice Management Services Simple invoice administration for GR8 CRM applications.
  • GR8 CRM Campaign Management User Interface This plugin is a companion plugin to crm-campaign, a plugin part of the GR8 CRM plugin suite. It contains a Twitter Bootstrap based user interface for campaign management.
  • GR8 CRM Campaign Services This plugin provide storage and services for managing campaigns in GR8 CRM based applications. A campaign is something that has a message and a target group, for example an email campaign, a product discount or a web site banner. Custom plugins can provide other campaign types with Grails artifacts.
  • GR8 CRM Blog Authoring Plugin This plugin is a companion plugin to crm-blog, a plugin part of the GR8 CRM plugin suite. It contains a Twitter Bootstrap based user interface for creating, editing and publishing blog posts.
  • Blog Services for GR8 CRM This plugin provide storage and services for managing blogs or other public content in GR8 CRM based applications.
  • Grails Revolver Plugin Plugin for a little more efficient development using Grails

Updated Grails 2 Plugins

  • Karman AWS Plugin Karman AWS provides an Amazon S3 Interface to the Karman API
  • Karman Plugin Karman is a standardized / extensible interface plugin for dealing with various cloud services including Local and S3.
  • Grailsflow GrailsFlow is an open source Workflow and Process Engine.
  • Manage installed features in GR8 CRM applications This plugin manages installed "features" in GR8 CRM. A feature is a unit of functionality that can be enabled or disabled per user role.
  • Content Management Services for GR8 CRM This plugin provide storage and services for managing content in GR8 CRM applications.Content can be any type of media like plain text, Microsoft Word, PDF, and images.Content can be stored in folders or attached to domain instances.Content can be shared with users of the application or shared publicly to the world.
  • Console Plugin A web-based Groovy console for interactive runtime application management and debugging
  • Vaadin 7 Plugin Grails plugin integrating Vaadin 7 into the Grails project.
  • Weceem CMS Weceem CMS is a free, open source content management system.
  • Apache Shiro Security for GR8 CRM This plugin leverage the shiro plugin to authenticate and authorize GR8 CRM users.
  • Babel Asset-Pipeline Plugin Adds babel transformation to Asset-Pipeline.
  • Scaffold Angular Plugin Generates a working demo with Angular frontend and REST backend.
  • Scaffold Core Plugin Core functionality for scaffolding own tempates or templates provided by plugin. e.g. grails-scaffold-extjs

Interesting Tweets

 

Conferences and meetups