Dear Groovy community, Groovy 1.1-beta-3 is there, paving the way for an RC-1 in the following weeks, and if all goes well, for 1.1-final in October, right in time for the Grails eXchange conference that takes place in London. This conference will also be the opportunity for the Groovy developer team to meet for the fourth Groovy Developer Conference! With Groovy 1.1 released by then, it’ll be time to think about what’s going to happen for the next major version of Groovy. Read more...

The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.1-beta-2, yet another step on our aggressive roadmap towards the release of Groovy 1.1 in October. For this release, I would like especially to highlight two key contributions to the project: First of all, after we’ve added Java 5 annotation support in Groovy 1.1-beta-1, this time, it was generics’ turn. Thanks to the help of some JBoss developers who’ve integrated Groovy in JBoss Seam, we’ve been able to test our support for annotations and generics, and to make sure we would release a quality milestone to our users. Read more...

Funny quote on the Groovy user mailing-list, when someone was complaining that IntelliJ IDEA wasn’t Open-Source: I want a platform that “just works” i don’t care what it looks like underneath. It is why I have a Mac with Mac OS X and why I use IntelliJ IDEA. Eclipse is the PC of IDEs. When you’re younger and have the time and energy to spend hours settings things up, dealing with driver problems (read plugins), install things over and over and deal with the incomptabilities between different drivers (read plugins) you’re ok with a PC (read Eclipse) Read more...

If you are attending JavaOne and are already in San Francisco on Monday, you have to come to G2One, the Groovy and Grails meetup. The fine folks of the NFJS tour are hosting this meeting to gather the Groovy and Grails community. G2One is taking place at the W Hotel near the Moscone Center, on Monday evening. It’s the best opportunity to meet the people who make Groovy and Grails. Read more...

After Groovy was awarded the first prize of the JAX conference in Germany last week for being the most innovative and creative project in 2007 in the Java community, we’re pleased to announce therelease of Groovy 1.1-beta-1. This release is the first beta release after the release of Groovy 1.0. But it’s a very important release as we’ve been working on key features putting Groovy clearly as the de facto enterprise scripting solution. Read more...

After Groovy won the JAX 2007 innovation award, I took some time to look at what was going on in the blogosphere. There’s always a lot of activity in the Groovy-sphere. It never ceases to amaze me how prolific the community is. Let’s list some of the interesting posts I’ve come across this week-end. Chanwit managed to make Groovy run on .Net! This is pretty cool IMHO. He used IKVM for that. Read more...

JAX is the most important Java conference in Germany. Every year, the organizers are running a contest to select the most innovative and creative projects. Fromover 40 proposals, the jury selected only ten nominees. Although great projects were selected, like the Matisse GUI builder in NetBeans, or the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management solution, Groovy won the first prize! It is a great honor and a huge pleasure for us to receive such a prize, especially knowing the cool projects we were competing with, or the past winners like the Spring framework. Read more...

I recently came across Bob Lee’s brand new IoC/DI framework: Guice. I’m usually using Spring for that purpose, and also because it goes much farther than just IoC/DI, but I thought I’d give Guice a try, especially because I wanted to play with Groovy’s support for annotations. So I downloaded Guice, and read the nice getting starteddocumentation I also took a snapshot of Groovy 1.1 that supports Java 5 annotations. With guice-1. Read more...

As always, lots of great things are happening in the Groovy and Grails community. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with the news, but if you don’t want to spend the whole day reading our high-traffic mailing-lists, you should certainly consider subscribing to one of these two resources: AboutGroovy: The community portal news site about everything Groovy and Grails, with frequent news items, podcast interviews, pointers to important resources. GroovyBlogs: A JavaBlog-like news agregator agregating the Grooyv and Grails mailing-lists feeds, and many feeds from famous bloggers spreading the Groovy and Grails love. Read more...

Scott Hickey, the project lead of the Groovy Eclipse plugin has just announced the availability of the plugin which now uses the offcial Groovy 1.0 release. The details of the announcement are reproduced below. There’s even some **basic code completion **available! Recently, EclipseZone proposed a Getting Started article explaining the basic usage of the Groovy plugin. There is a new version of the Groovy Eclipse Plugin available on the update site. Read more...