Grails Diary - Week 19 in 2014

13 May 2014

Biggest Grails related news this week, is the first release candidate of Grails 2.4 is out, with Groovy 2.3 and Springframework 4.0.4! Check out the release notes. Please test, and report bugs before the final release.

The Grails Mailing lists will be deprecated from now! Ordinary questions should be posted at Stackoverflow , and discussions about the framework should be handled in the Google Group at http://groups.google.com/d/forum/grails-dev-discuss. The archive at nabbles will still be available for google searches etc.

Ryan Vanderwerf has posted a video of the Lego Mindstorms EV3 running with Groovy, which he will demo at his workshop at GR8conf EU - I think it is very cute! Remember there is only 14 days left to buy your ticket for GR8conf EU this year!

For SpringOne2gx, parts of the schedule is now avaliable

Podcasts and Videos of Presentations

• HTML5/Angular.js/ Groovy/Java/ MongoDB, All Together - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Trisha Gee)
• Groovy Podcast #1 (Peter Ledbrook with David Estes as guest)

Blogs, Articles, etc.

• Groovy Weekly #21 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Groovy Weekly #20 (Guillaume Laforge)
• Groovy Goodness: Check Configuration Property Is Set In ConfigObject (MrHaki)
• Easy Editing ResourceBundle Property Files in IntelliJ IDEA (MrHaki)
• Groovy 2.3 Released With Traits and Java 8 Support - Interview with Guilaume Laforge (Victor Grazi )
• Groovy Object Notation using ConfigSlurper
• Grails Controller namespaces (Michael Scharhag)
• Grails: The Tomcat kill switch (Michael Scharhag)
• Grails R14 Error (Memory quota exceeded) on Heroku (Brandon Fish)
• OAuth 2.0 using Grails Part – 1 (Pulkit Pushkarna)

New Plugins

• One Line Access Log Plugin Grails does not come with a Grails-centric access log which shows useful info for every request. This plugin provides a single line access log for every request
• Dirserve Plugin Serve static contents from a filesystem directory.

Updated Plugins

• Force SSL Plugin Creates a simple annotation to mark controller/actions as SSL restricted and performs the appropriate redirect.
• Apache Tomcat 8 plugin Makes Tomcat 8.x the servlet container for Grails at development time
• Cache Plugin Grails Cache Plugin
• Spring Websocket Plugin Spring Websocket Plugin
• Resources HTML resource management enhancements to replace g.resource etc.
• CXF plug-in for Grails Brings easy exposure of service and endpoint classes as Apache CXF SOAP Services to Grails.
• Markup Decorator Use pluggable decorators to modify content in G
• Easy Custom XML and JSON Marshalling for Grails Converters Easy registration and usage of custom XML and JSON marshallers supporting hierarchical config
• Provides Mail support to a running Grails application This plug-in provides a MailService class as well as configuring the necessary beans within the Spring Applicatio
• Searchable Plugin Adds rich search functionality to Grails domain models. Built on Compass (http://www.compass-project.org/) and Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/) This version is recommended for JDK 1.5+
• Redis Plugin The Redis plugin provides integration with a Redis datastore. Redis is a lightning fast 'data structure server'. The plugin enables a number of memoization techniques to cache results from complex operations in Redis.
• Grails Application Version Update Plugin Provides a more friendly way to update your application or plugin version.
• Hibernate 3 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 3 through GORM
• Hibernate 4 for Grails Provides integration between Grails and Hibernate 4 through GORM
• MongoDB GORM A plugin that integrates the Mongo document datastore into Grails, providing a GORM API onto it
• Grails Apache Nutch alternative Very simple alternative to Apache Nutch created i
• Grails FilterPane Plugin This plugin adds automatic and customizable filtering capabilities to any Grails application's list views.

Interesting Tweets

• @DailyGrailsTip Futures and Rx Observables - https://spring.io/blog/2014/04/29/springone2gx-2013-replay-futures-and-rx-observables-powerful-abstractions-for-consuming-web-services-asynchronously
• @bmuschko A #Gradle Docker plugin using the remote API for managing images and containers: https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-docker-plugin
• @crazysmoove Amazing how easy it is to build up complex queries for search forms using #grailsfw query composition. Takes seconds instead of hours!
• @mscharhag fascinating #javascript, why "1" == "1"=="1" ist true but "a"=="a"=="a" is false, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23561542/why-does-1-1-1-return-true-1-1-1-return-true-and-a-a-a-retur
• @rfletcherEW Not a fan of hover dropdowns but the rest of these @twbootstrap 3 tips are good http://scotch.io/bar-talk/bootstrap-3-tips-and-tricks-you-might-not-know via @scotch_io
• @ysb33r Deep into trying to write a S3 provider for #groovyvfs - I blame @albertovilches for this
• @glaforge Quick interview on the release of #groovylang 2.3 on @InfoQ http://www.dzone.com/links/interview_about_the_release_of_groovy_23.html Don't hesitate to vote ;-)

Conferences and meetups