I’m very happy to announce the final release of Gaelyk 1.0, the lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine! It took some time to get to 1.0, but it’s now here, with the key feature I’ve been missing since the beginning of the project, in particular the Query DSL which allows you to write queries like this one: def latestArticles = datastore.execute { select all from articles sort desc by dateCreated where author == params. Read more...

It was time I rebooted my old blog! It used to be in PHP, and it’s time to move to the next millenium with a blog engine written in Groovy, using the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit, and deployed on Google App Engine.

The Groovy development team is really pleased and proud to announce the release of the final version of Groovy 1.8.0! After a lot of work and efforts throughout four betas and four release candidates, version 1.8 of Groovy has been long in the making, but is packed with tons of new features and enhancements, for your productivity, and your pleasure. In particular, you’ll be happy to learn about: the new Domain-Specific Language authoring capabilities for more readability and expressivity of your business rules, the runtime performance improvements, the bundling of the GPars parallel and concurrency library, the built-in JSON support, the new compile-time meta-programming features (several new useful AST transformations), the new functional programming aspects of closures, and much more. Read more...

It is this time of the year: GR8Conf Europe 2011 is ready to rock the Groovy world! Register now to save €300 with the Early Bird rate! Three days packed with Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock, GPars, Gaelyk, AST transformations, GContracts, Grails Plugins development, and lots of other gr8 stuff. This year, the conference is growing. We kick of the conference with a university day, with two tracks, one intermediate and one advanced, with workshops and hands-on training: Read more...

I’m very pleased to announce the release of Gaelyk 0.6. This new version is a pretty significant milestone, both in terms of features and quality. We’re really approaching a final 1.0 version! Here’s a list of the novelties, updates, and bug fixes. Updated to GAE SDK 1.4.0 and Groovy 1.7.6 Channel service added in the binding and added a convenient method for sending messages Ability to specify the “warmup request” handler through a route definition Added app. Read more...

I’m pleased to announce the release of Gaelyk 0.4.4! What’s new? Updated the Google App Engine SDK to the latest 1.3.7 version Jabber and incoming email groovlets now have their implicit logger (gaelyk.email and gaelyk.jabber) Plugins are now impacting Jabber and incoming email groovlets as well Fixed a bug the conversion of String to Datastore’s Category type Internal refactorings of the caching logic Added namespace support for multitenancy, added in SDK 1. Read more...

A quick heads-up to tell you about an upcoming Groovy 1.8 feature which will allow us to make nicer DSLs. This feature will be available in Groovy 1.8-beta-2, which will probably be released before JavaOne. Lidia Donajczyk was our Google Summer of Code student this year, working on the implementation of GEP-3, an extension to Groovy’s command expressions. You can have a look at the GEP-3 page for the guiding ideas behind this enhancement proposal. Read more...

The GR8Conf is back! A conference dedicated to Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock and more! This second edition of the conference takes place in Copehagen, Denmark, again like last year. And it’s solely dedicated to the Groovy Ecosystem, and all the GR8 technologies based on it. Over two days, in a single track (to avoid missing important sessions because of too much choice), you’ll hear about: the Groovy dynamic language for the JVM the Grails web application stack based on Spring, Tomcat and Hibernate the Griffon swing application framework for rich desktop applications the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for easily developing and deploying small applications to Google App Engine the Gradle build solution system the GPars parallel library for Groovy And some advanced talk on: Read more...

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM! After two betas and two release candidates, we’re are happy to deliver this new and very important milestone to our ever growing user base. Over the years, the Groovy project has managed to grow a community, but not only that, a very rich and active ecosystem of Groovy-related projects: theGrails web stack, the Griffon swing application framework, the Gant and Gradle build solutions, the Gaelyk lightweight toolkit for Google App Engine, the Gparsparallel system, the Easyb and Spock testing frameworks and the GMock mocking library, the CodeNarc and GMetrics quality tools, and many more! Read more...

Big release days! Yesterday, Grails 1.1.2 was pulled from the oven, while waiting for Spring 3 to be available to release 1.2. Today, we released Groovy 1.6.6 and 1.7-RC-1, bringing use closer to the final 1.7 release, which would take place before Christmas. And tonight, I’ve also updated Gaelyk 0.3.2, the lightweight Groovy toolkit for developing applications on Google App Engine. In particular, have a look at the URL routing support and the few bug fixes and also at my presentation at the Devoxx conference. Read more...