http://www.groovyblogs.org groovyblogs.org Recent Entries http://www.groovyblogs.org/favicon.ico http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13367 In the grails documentation, and every book on the subject you will find an example similar to:class Author { static hasMany = [ books : Book ] String name}class Book { static belongsTo = Autho... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13367 Explorations in software 2009-11-12T07:10:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13366 After working with ColdFusion and becoming frustrated with some of it's shortcomings, I decided to use a "grown up" language; Java.  It's been quite a few years since I made the leap to Java, and... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:10:58 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13366 Explorations in software 2009-11-12T07:10:58Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13365 Closures are blocks of code we can assign to variables and pass around like objects. We can use closures as method arguments, but we must make sure we use the correct syntax. Groovy has some variation... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:59:08 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13365 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-12T06:59:08Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13364 Please create issues in JIRA if you encounter problems. JIRA Grails-Webdriver SVN Grails-Webdriver Author Homepage Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:26:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13364 Grails New Plugins Feed 2009-11-12T03:26:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13363 Finally we’ve launched our own blog. We’ll try to write interesting things about Java, Grails, iPhone or about anything else related to our work.BTW, this blog is powered by Grails, same a... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:27:01 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13363 Componentix blog 2009-11-12T02:27:01Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13362 IntroductionFor many developers Java is often a synonym for totally non-sexy enterprise applications development. It is associated with numerous XML configuration files, boilerplate code, etc. So they... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:27:01 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13362 Componentix blog 2009-11-12T02:27:01Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13361 Recently we have got strange error in one of our projects when we upgraded it from Grails 1.2 M2 to Grails 1.2 M4. After we did the upgrade we started getting java.lang.MissingMethodException for the... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:27:00 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13361 Componentix blog 2009-11-12T02:27:00Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13360 In one of our Grails projects we had to use Microsoft SQL Server as a database. Hibernate has support for it and works good enough, however the schema generated by it is not ideal, at least from our p... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:26:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13360 Componentix blog 2009-11-12T02:26:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13357 Fato: mais da metade das pessoas que conhe��o e programam em Groovy nunca usaram invoca����o din��mica de m��todos simplesmente por n��o saber o que �� ou simplesmente como funciona. Sendo assim, sem ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:01:02 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13357 /dev/Kico 2009-11-11T21:01:02Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13356 Itching to try a new programming language?�� Google has you covered.�� They just released an open source, experimental language called "Go".�� Google says their open source language has the ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:58:01 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13356 Groovy Zone - Everything for the Groovy & Grails developer 2009-11-11T20:58:01Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13355 This year's conference season highlight, Devoxx, is round the corner I'll be there from Tuesday to Thursday, presenting TeamCity and GPars on Tuesday. Mark the dates in your calendar and definitely co... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:13 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13355 Vaclav Pech 2009-11-11T18:01:13Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13354 This time I have a little surprise up in my sleeve. An experimental feature which we would like to get some feedback on from you. Look carefully at the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition screenshot below... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:45:02 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13354 Groovy Zone - Everything for the Groovy & Grails developer 2009-11-11T17:45:02Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13353 By default the name of our Gradle project is the name of the directory the project is created in. We can check this by running the following command: $ gradle -r | grep name name: project The first ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:49:19 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13353 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-11T14:49:19Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13352 Groovy has some very nice builders to quickly make for example XML. The SwingBuilder class makes it possible to use a builder syntax to make a GUI. We define the components we want to display, binding... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:22:07 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13352 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-11T08:22:07Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13351 Here are the Links for my COJUG: Eclipse Demo Camp Groovy and Grails Plugins discussionYou can use these links to download the Eclipse Groovy V2 plugin and SpringSource Tool Suite.http://groovy.codeha... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:07:02 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13351 Shingler's Thoughts 2009-11-11T02:07:02Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13348 Groovy is the great programming language. Period. I am not going to argue about that and I don't plan to convince anybody. If you don't share this belief or need more arguments, please visit the very ... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:23:05 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13348 Groovy Zone - Everything for the Groovy & Grails developer 2009-11-10T22:23:05Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13347 So you’ve just installed the handy dandy Spring Security plugin (http://grails.org/plugin/acegi), which makes it incredibly easy to secure entire Grails controllers and/or controller actions wit... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:33:04 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13347 Matt Stine's Blog 2009-11-10T19:33:04Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13346 This was done as a way to force domain users to log in before using the applications.The old implementation used the jcifs library with jetty, but after upgrading to glashfish, jcifs started to fail r... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13346 Gabriel Dogaru's Weblog 2009-11-10T19:18:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13345 I was working on a new post for this blog when I was reminded by an email that Grails: A Quick-Start Guide is being featured on JavaRanch this week. So, I will be replying to questions there all week... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:06 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13345 Grails: A Quick-Start Guide 2009-11-10T16:00:06Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13344 The Blog is now taking second place as my dissertation goes full steam ahead. So just a quick post.Still reading the Groovy and Grails in Actions books and have had a quick look at MySQL.Currently in... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:10:01 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13344 brightside-blog 2009-11-10T13:10:01Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13343 Uno de los usos típicos de Ajax es el generar formularios que se definan dinámicamente en función de los valores que vaya introduciendo el usuario. Pensad por ejemplo en el t&iacu... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:08 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13343 Ultimas historias publicadas en groovy.org.es 2009-11-10T12:54:08Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13342 I've been learning Mercurial over the past two weeks and I'm really loving it. I've used git before, and had a bunch of issues with merges (my fault, not git's - but troublesome none the less). I th... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:40:00 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13342 Glen Smith - Groovy Related category 2009-11-10T09:40:00Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13341 In Groovy we can override the method asType() to convert an object into another type. We can use the method asType() in our code to invoke the convertion, but we can even make it shorter an use as. c... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:29:18 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13341 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-10T06:29:18Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13340 Clojure is evolving very rapidly. I find myself using clojure and clojure-contrib from github most of the time. It’s rather annoying to have to keep git pull and build them often. A few days ago... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:21:00 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13340 M Best 2009-11-10T03:21:00Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13339 When I first saw Google Wave, all sorts of ideas came to me right away. I wanted to use Google App Engine and Google Wave to do some prototyping on some of the gaming ideas I have. Really, real time X... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:20:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13339 M Best 2009-11-10T03:20:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13338 I’m not a maven fan. I use it with lift, but that’s pretty much it. In short, I only use it when I’m forced to. So when Gradle came along, I adapted it pretty early on. If you don&#8... Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:20:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13338 M Best 2009-11-10T03:20:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13335 A few months ago I set out to build my first hudson plugin. It was an interesting, sometimes difficult journey which came to a good end with the CMake Builder Plugin, a build tool which can be used to... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:49:02 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13335 Schneide Blog 2009-11-09T23:49:02Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13334 This is a way I use to to debug my griffon apps since before ide support. I am using this with idea 8, but I think it can be used with every ide. I think Eclipse can run griffon apps like this.I was... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:11:58 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13334 Gabriel Dogaru's Weblog 2009-11-09T22:11:58Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13332 IntroductionThis plugin is designed to make use of web search services (for now just Yahoo! Boss Search, later also Google and BING) within Grails applications. In order to use this plugin, you must h... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:35:03 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13332 Grails New Plugins Feed 2009-11-09T21:35:03Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13331 One of the more exciting things I've learned about recently is doing behavior driven development (BDD) with a framework called easyb. Easyb allows you to test your system by defining behavior in stor... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:20:58 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13331 Agile ICE 2009-11-09T14:20:58Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13330 Show Notes Grails 1.2 M4 released Java development 2.0: Easy EC2 Graeme Rocher Video: Simplifying Java EE with Grails Ted Nalied's shell aliases Foxgem's JSecurity Miniguide Grails CKEdi... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:05 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13330 The Groovy & Grails Podcast 2009-11-09T11:07:05Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13329 Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Senior Staff Member bei Sun und unter anderem zust�ndig f�r das Continous-Integration-Tool Hudson, hat mit YouDebug sein erstes eigendes Debugging-Werkzeug vorgestellt. YouDebug... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:44:07 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13329 Java Magazin 2009-11-09T08:44:07Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13328 Normally when we are working with readers and writers in Java we must make sure we close the appropriate reader and writer. Groovy has several with...() methods for File, URL or streams and writers, w... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:57:04 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13328 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-09T07:57:04Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13327 This past week, I gave a presentation to the DevJam meeting on the advantages of using Mercurial, a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) over tools like Subversion, Perforce, and ClearCase. I&#8... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:35:10 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13327 Ted Naleid 2009-11-09T04:35:10Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13326 
Plugin that adds SymmetricDS synchronization capability to a Grails application. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46:59 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13326 Grails New Plugins Feed 2009-11-08T16:46:59Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13325 I downloaded and unzipped Griffon 0.2 today. Because I set GRIFFON_HOME and added its bin to PATH, I could immediately begin using it in NetBeans IDE (to which end I recompiled the NetBeans Griffon pl... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:36:06 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13325 Geertjan's Weblog 2009-11-08T13:36:06Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13324 Groovy has the def keyword to replace a type name when we declare a variable. Basically it means we don't really want to define the type ourselves or we want to change the type along the ride. def my... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:04:13 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13324 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-08T06:04:13Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13323 In our previous posts we published a�� Maven-based solution that illustrated how to get Selenium tests running against a Grails application completely from the command line (thus enabling these tests ... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:46:09 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13323 Build Lackey Blog 2009-11-08T03:46:09Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13322 Once again the incredible productivity boosts provided by Grails have become glaringly obvious.... what is it this time???? Dealing with JSON!!In my project I needed to save domain info to files and... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:02:08 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13322 John's Blog 2009-11-08T00:02:08Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13321 You may already know both technologies but I'll briefly introduce them. Grails is the best web framework that I ever work with, it uses Groovy and convention over configuration to simplify our develop... Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:47:05 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13321 Felipe Cypriano 2009-11-07T23:47:05Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13320 The session after mine here at RuPy was MongoDB presented by Mike Dirlof(@mdirlof). I looked at the Java examples yet they left a bit to be desired as they had the usual Java verbosity problems. One ... Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:37:23 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13320 Surviving IT w/o losing your mind 2009-11-07T14:37:23Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13319 Gradle is build system to build software projects. Gradle supports convention over configuration, build-in takss and dependency support. We write a build script in Groovy (!) to define our Gradle buil... Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:44:31 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13319 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-07T10:44:31Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13318 In Groovy we can use non-string keys for maps. We only have to place parenthesis around the key to make it work. This way we can use variables and types like Date and Boolean as keys for our map. When... Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:29:29 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13318 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-07T07:29:29Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13317 Like Javascript, semicolons are optional in Groovy except for when they aren't optional. These examples are both pretty contrived, though I found both because they're actually something that I've writ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:20:28 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13317 Groovy Zone - Everything for the Groovy & Grails developer 2009-11-06T12:20:28Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13316 In Groovy scripts we can define variables with a type or with the def keyword. Or we can leave out any type definition or def keyword. This effects the scope of the variable. If we want to use the var... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:14:23 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13316 Messages from mrhaki 2009-11-06T06:14:23Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13315 I've finally got the first release of the Selenium RC plugin out of the door. Just run grails install-plugin selenium-rc to install.For anyone unfamiliar with Selenium RC basically the plugin allows y... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:50:18 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13315 Ad-Hockery 2009-11-05T23:50:18Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13314 In this post, I'm going to talk a bit about Griffon plugins and addons--what they are, why they're useful, and how you can create your own.  As an example, I'll walk through the steps used to cre... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:46:24 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13314 Josh (Formerly) In Antarctica 2009-11-05T23:46:24Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13313 The Selenium RC plugin aims to make Selenium RC a first class functional testing option for Grails.Writing Selenium Tests Selenium tests should be placed under the test/selenium directory. As with oth... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:32:16 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13313 Grails New Plugins Feed 2009-11-05T23:32:16Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13312 The Cloud Foundry plugin for Grails integrates Cloud Foundry's cloud deployment services to manage the running of Grails applications in the cloud from the command line.InstallationFirst of all, you ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:32:15 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13312 Grails New Plugins Feed 2009-11-05T23:32:15Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13311 There’s myriad ways to validate XML these days; in fact, with Groovy, the mechanics of parsing XML with XMLSlurper couldn’t be easier! Nevertheless, from time to time, because it’s m... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:16:13 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13311 The Disco Blog 2009-11-05T20:16:13Z http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13309 On NetBeans Zone I mentioned the OfficeLAF that developers at Exie in Norway worked on, so that they could end up with a NetBeans Platform application that looks like a member of the Microsoft Office ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:48:25 GMT http://www.groovyblogs.org/entries/jump?id=13309 Geertjan's Weblog 2009-11-05T13:48:25Z