Monthly Archives: August 2007

Grails 0.6 Released

Posted on August 31, 2007 by peter

Today Graeme and the Grails team have released a significant new version of Grails: 0.6. One of the more interesting bits added in this release is the addition rich conversation support (Spring Web Flow under the hood) called Grails Flow. … Continue reading →

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Unittesting e-mail sending using Spring

Posted on August 29, 2007 by peter

In previous projects I mostly skipped writing tests for sending mail. Mostly due to the fact that there is a dependency on a working SMTP server. This time I decided to invest some time in finding a solution for this … Continue reading →

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Grails – Soap

Posted on August 28, 2007 by peter

Since working with, or creating WebServices is something webdevelopers will probably do regularly (or stumble upon in the very near future) I decided to have a look at Grails‘ support for SOAP. First thing I wanted to see was how … Continue reading →

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Grails – Render method & Markup builder

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

During Graemes’ demo of Grails at javasummercamp he briefly pointed out the fact that one can implicitly use the Groovy MarkupBuilder (Similar to the Markaby DSL for Ruby) within the render method of an action for generating markup. Which makes … Continue reading →

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Proficts’ Javasummercamp on Rails/Grails/Java

Posted on August 26, 2007 by peter

Yesterday I visited Proficts’ Java Summercamp called “Rails en Grails en Java: Nieuwe talen op de JVM”. Which in essence should have been a small seminar on the topic of new languages on the JVM. In reality Charles Nutter presented … Continue reading →

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Grails templating & Ajax

Posted on August 24, 2007 by peter

Grails’ templating system is cool. There is no doubt about it. It’s what I wanted JSP2.0 tagfiles to be. In essence they’re not so different from tagfiles in practice their versatility is a fair bit higher. Templates in Grails reside … Continue reading →

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Groovy and the safe dereference operator

Posted on August 17, 2007 by peter

When going through view code generated by Grails I noticed heavy use of the question mark operator when referencing properties. After browsing around I discovered that it is called the ‘safe dereference operator’ Sounds more complex then it is, it … Continue reading →

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Referencing spring beans from a Grails tag

Posted on August 16, 2007 by peter

Today I had a short look at referencing Spring beans from Grails. Since Grails is build on top of Spring this was actually 100% simpler then expected. Grails controllers and taglibs are autowired by name on startup. Just for the … Continue reading →

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IntelliJ IDEA 7m2: Groovy/Grails support

Posted on August 15, 2007 by peter

From the corner of my eyes I noticed something in the latest IntelliJ release: a Groovy and Grails plug-in. The screenshots on the Jetbrains website showing of Smart type inference, Cross-resolution between Groovy and Java classes and Smart code navigation … Continue reading →

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Book: The definitive guide to Grails

Posted on August 14, 2007 by peter

Today I received some formal backing for my investigations into the Grails framework. The mailman delivered ‘The Definitive Guide to Grails‘ by Graeme Keith Rocher which I asked Finalist to order for me (hey, can’t win battles without books). I’ve … Continue reading →

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