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Why I’m not using Groovy at work
A disclaimer: this blog is based on my personal failures with getting Grails accepted in our company. So, no, this is not the holy grail into dropping your EJB, Struts or Java toolkit to get groovy with Grails, but maybe you can learn something on how NOT to do it, and post some comments on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 12 so far )Groovy 1.7 Power Assert
I already mentioned this in my previous post, but I wanted to go a little bit deeper on this: the new Groovy Power Assert (and no, let’s not call is GPA). Groovy Power Assert makes assertions quite more powerful. The best way to demonstrate is ofcourse by example. When running the following code in Groovy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Gr8 conference in Denmark, 2010
At the 19th and 20th of May 2010,the GR8 conference will be held. From the website: “The GR8 Conference is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies — hence the pun and code name GR8.”. The agenda is not officially known [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Groovy @Delegate annotation
Groovy 1.7 provides some nice new annotations. One of those annotations is the @Delegate. What it essentially does, is providing the methods of the Delegate to the class using the Delegate. This is best explained by a small example: This works really nice. The Manager now delegates the call for doWork() to the Employee. This [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Reloading pages in Wicket
When developing software, and especially web frontends, is nice and handy to get some immediate feedback on the work you’ve done, without having to rebuild all dependent projects, killing servers, redeploying wars, etc. At my current project, we have a simple web frontend which is using Wicket, which needs some changes now and then. Unfortunately, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )ActiveMQ NullPointer exceptions when creating objectmessages.
At the moment, I’m working with Flex, BlazeDS en ActiveMQ in a Spring application. I’m using Flex to display some of my database contents, and for direct communication, I use BlazeDS, and for updating the view, I use JMS (ActiveMQ) in combation with BlazeDS. It works by publishing information to topics, which can be easily [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Groovy PowerPoint DSL
Blog describing the creation of a Groovy PowerPoint DSL, to give a practical demonstration of the Builder support in Groovy.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Converting Groovy Objects to JSON using Grails
Disclaimer: this might not be the best way to do it. I’m open for improvements, but it’s a way I’m using now, and it works pretty nice! Currenly, I’m creating an application which does some JSON communication. Since Grails already has nice support for JSON, I wanted to reuse their libraries, but, at the moment, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )IntelliJ JSON Formatter Plugin 0.2
I’ve worked with my JSON Formatter plugin for a couple of days now to debug my Grails communication layer, and even though I created it myself, I want to say that I’m quite pleased with it. The only thing which annoyed me a bit is that it’s hard to see if the JSON code is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )IntelliJ JSON Formatter Plugin
An introduction to the IntelliJ JSON Formatter to ease Grails development and easily format your JSON code.
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