Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
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Groovy 1.7, Grails 1.2 and Groovy Eclipse 2.0 Updates Include Dependency Management,Language Support
The Groovy language, version 1.7, was recently released supporting refinements to the language itself as well as library enhancements. In short succession, SpringSource has announced the Groovy Eclipse IDE 2.0, which brings debugging, refined content-assist, and stub-less compilation to Eclipse's formerly poor Groovy support.
Roundup: Scala as the long term replacement for Java
Scala has been receiving much attention lately as a possible candidate to replace Java in the future. James Strachan creator of Groovy advocates in favor of Scala as James Gosling, creator of Java and Charles Nutter JRuby Core Developer, have done in the past.
Articles about Groovy
Orchestrating RESTful Services With Mule ESB And Groovy
In this article, David Dossot, co-author of Mule in Action, examines the power of Mule RESTpack and Groovy in orchestrating RESTful services in the Mule messaging platform. The article detail the interactions for each of these steps and will consider what particular Mule moving parts and Groovy features we have used to achieve such an interaction.
What's New in Groovy 1.6
Groovy project lead writes about Groovy 1.6 changes and improvements, including include performance enhancements, integration of JMX Builder, and OSGi readiness.
Presentations about Groovy
Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level
In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2009, Billy Newport discusses the ways that developers interact with key/value (KV) stores such as memcached and WebSphere eXtreme Scale, entity vs column-oriented approaches, synchronous and asynchronous operations, large data sets, using a DBMS as a column store, collocating closures and data, and features that could be added to increase scalability.
What's New in SpringSource Tool Suite
In this presentation from SpringOne 2009, Christian Dupuis discusses the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), the philosophy behind STS, the requirements behind STS, the STS 2.1 and 2.2 featureset, several demos of STS capabilities, Groovy and Grails, Spring 3.0, autowiring, namespaces, REST, cross-cutting annotations, AJDT, Spring Roo, Cloud Foundry, tc Server, dm Server, VMWare, and the STS roadmap.
Interviews about Groovy
Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher on Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2
Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher talk about the new features in Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2, how Groovy and Grails are related to each other, and how the acquisition by SpringSource has affected their development.
Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#.
Books about Groovy
Getting Started with Grails, Second Edition
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Getting Started with Grails
Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore the various aspects of Grails and also experience Grails by building a Grails app.