03 October 2016
This week, I managed to write a one week edition of the Grails diary, but with the great news, it was easy!
Paul King will be joining OCI, to lead OCI's contributions to Apache Groovy!. This is great news, congrats to Paul King, OCI and the entire Apache Groovy Ecosystem!
The official release of Grails 3.2 and GORM 6.0 is now out. Read Graeme Rocher's
announcement here.
For GORM, this is a major release and separates GORM from the Spring container, so it is easier to use other places than in Grails. It comes with a new
GORM 6 website and a manual to
What’s New in GORM 6.
One of the biggest news is the RxGORM API, based on RxJAVA for non-blocking, reactive data access code, currently with implementations for REST and MongoDB.
In Grails, besides the GORM and libraries upgrade, comes with RxJava support, better JSON view support and improvements to REST and AngularJS scaffolding.
A pleasing thing to the eye, and easier to contribute to is the new Asciidoctor backed user guide.
Each section comes with a "Improve this doc" button, taking you directly to Github and the online editor.
Version 0.8 of GrooCSS has been released, with new "styles" method for created unattached styles, a variety of convert and process that take String, In/OutputStreams, and Reader/PrintWriter, and some limited support for using spaces and ~ syntax in Selector definition
Griffon also joined the release party, and is out in version 2.8.0. The release notes reveals the new features are upgrades to the JavaFx part, the ability to tie multiple nodes to a single action using FXML and you can find multiple elements in the Node graph using a predicate.
Congrats to Sergio del Amo on the 50th aniversary edition og the Groovy Calamari newsletter! The GORM edition is one of the best so far, with links to a lot of great GORM resources.
On the podcast scene, Ken Kousen had Dan Woods as a guest on the
Groovy Podcast, discussing
Reactive Programming.
Rob Fletcher and Craig Atkinson are the guests on the
FuntimeException episode 1.3.0,
discussing testing including Spock and Geb.
Danny Hyun discussed the state of Robs Spock book, and asked
"If this book was to be your unborn child, how pregnant would you be right now?" - Listen to the Funtime Exception podcast for the answer
The Tiobe index for September have Groovy placed number 16, keeping the position in the top 20 it has had since the beginning of the year!
Remember the Call for Papers are open for both GR8Conf India in January and GR8Conf EU in June. Speakers for GR8Conf India is already being announced (Burt Beckwith, Dan Lynn, Puneet Behl and Ken Kousen), so get those abstract submitted ;)