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JRuby: What happens next? Will it affect Groovy/Grails?
Since Sun's announcement of their hiring of JRuby committers Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, both as well as Tim Bray of Sun have both provided follow up answers to questions about what will happen next. The blogsphere has also began discussing the announcement in respect to other projects such as Groovy/Grails.
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InfoQ Article: Grails + EJB Domain Models Step-by-Step
Grails could bring Ruby on Rails style productivity to the Java platform, built on the Groovy language and fully integrated with Java. In this tutorial, Jason Rudolph shows how to use Grails to quickly build a functional website around an existing EJB 3 entity bean domain model with very little code.
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Catching up with Groovy
Groovy released its jsr-6 version last week. InfoQ chatted with lead Guillaume Laforge to find out the current status through 1.0 final. Noteworthy in the JSR-6 release are patches submitted by Oracle around Groovy's easy support of JMX beans, a new solution for mocking (based on Groovy's Meta-Object Protocol), stored procedures. Enhancements for 1.0 aim to make Groovy as fast as raw Java.
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InfoQ Book Review: Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse
Matt Morton asked the question "Can Java be as Agile as the Dynamics (Ruby, Python, Groovy)?" and went to Anil Hemrajani's book to find out. He found a readable, useful book, and helps idenfity the right audience for this book.
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Groovy gets a contribution from Oracle; ongoing Grails contributions discussed
Oracle has recently contributed an extension to the Groovy JMX MBean. An ongoing contribution is currently being discussed between Oracle and the Groovy and Grails leads about Oracle's intention to contribute ongoing engineering and QA resources to the projects. Oracle believes that better integration makes Grails potentially better suited for mainstream enterprise adoption than Rails.