Grails, Custom Datatypes and Conversion
For the application I am currently developing I am trying to use OOP best practices. That means I tend to use many value objects for different things,... more »
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jSilhouette update
A couple of days ago there was an announcement on this blog about jSilhouette's 0.1 release, followed by a comparison between the geom, scene and jfx... more »
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Groovy Domain Specific Language Tutorial
Although it may seem like an advanced topic, writing a simple Domain Specific Language (DSL) in Groovy is actually pretty easy. Groovy's dynamic... more »
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Groovy threads
Note: I think I’ll re-write this post, it’s a little confusing, but I’m in a rush.
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svn: inconsistent line ending style
Today I was adding grails tutorials into SVN repository. Yes I know it should be in the repository long time ago :). And something that should be... more »
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A Java-near-speed Groovy
I'm currently be able to make Groovy speed step closer to Java. It's a high aim, and it's clear to be possible with JVMIT now. I was working on... more »
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The Grails event model
Everything in Grails, from build scripts to individual artifacts such as domain classes and controllers, throw events at key points during an... more »
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Groovy File IO : Staying at the Ritz
Every few months, I find myself writing a quick utility where, among other things, I want to copy a file. Usually within an hour, I want not only to... more »
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Rapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy
Utilizing both Maven and Groovy you can rapidly prototype web apps, and in this blog I'll walk you through exactly how to do that. First we are going... more »
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Java, Groovy & JavaFx: side by side 1
While experimenting with JavaFx Script I encountered a few gotchas switching from Java/Groovy, mostly related to my preconceptions of the language... more »
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Interview with Andrew Glover
Andrew Glover is the man with the plan when the Java platform and testing meet. Groovy Zone interviewed this charismatic speaker and well known... more »
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Message Driven POGOs: When Groovy, Spring and OpenMQ collide
When we last left this story, I was talking about integrating Grails and JMS so that groovyblogs can put all of its feed and thumbnail fetch requests... more »
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Grails controller unit testing with Expando
The Controller has two properties 'cswService' and 'exporterService'. These properties will be setted by spring, all controlled by the Grails runtime... more »
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Grails on Sakila
Some time ago I wanted to create a real-life demo application in Grails. Back in May or June I took the MySQL Sakila sample database and started... more »
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Groovier PasswordKeeper
Password Keeper is a Groovy port of an AIR application of the same name featured on MakeUseOf.com. The Substance Look and Feel closely simulates the... more »
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Using JavaFX objects from within Java: a very bad joke from Sun
Accessing JavaFX from Java...so bad it just boggles the mind.
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Java Fork/Join + Groovy
This is an executable blog post. Download the post here and run it using Groovy with jsr166y.jar in your classpath. This was created and presented for... more »
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jSilhouette: demo screenshots and code
jSilhouette includes a demo application for each one of its subprojects (geom, scene & jfx) showing the shapes in action. This post is a recollection... more »
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Modalbox in Grails
There is a nice and handy javascript library for creating kind of a modal “window”, similar to the famous lightbox. Here are few lines of code to make... more »
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Integrating a simple Flex search application with Grails
The Grails framework greatly simplifies the task of building a Java web application. This article illustrates one approach to integrating a Flex... more »
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Getting started with Grails and Extjs
Getting Grails and ExtJS working together
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AIR and Groovy via Spring
As a fun way to while away a Saturday evening, I decided to look at Joe's Behavioral Analytics backend code to see if I could create a Flex-based AIR... more »
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Using Groovy to Create Sample Data in XML format for AppFuse
I have been using AppFuse 2.0 to create some applications that read from legacy databases. Under AppFuse’s standard configuration, you can populate... more »
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Enabling the AJAX Spinner in Grails
For standard page requests, browsers use an animated icon as an indicator to the user that the browser is waiting for the request to complete.... more »
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Spring and Scripting
Spring is among the handful of Java application frameworks that is widely used in many enterprise projects. It has become a viable alternative to the... more »
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