Groovy Weekly #13

Hot on the heels of the Java 8 general availability good news, let’s have a look at the latest news of our beloved Groovy community!

Releases

• Keegan Witt announces the first enhancement release of GMavenPlus
• Marco Vermeulen updates GVM SDK to 0.5.4
• Andrés Almiray releases version 1.0 of his Gradle quickstart lazybones template

Articles

• Jenn Strater speaks about the Gr8Ladies mission
• Dan Woods explores Spring Boot for micro-services and also shows the Groovy support with Spring Boot CLI
• Tomás Lin’s notes on Spring Boot, Websockets, StompJS and AngularJS
• Tomás Lin details how to build web content JARs for Spring Boot with Gradle
• Michael Scharhag shows how you can benefit from Groovysh
• Tim Yates details the progress and Java 8 support of the Groovy Stream library
• Alex Staveley writes about the good use of closures
• MrHaki explains how to use Hibernate native SQL queries in Grails
• Matt Cholick shows how to use Gradle to build and apply AST transformations
• MrHaki covers how to combine Grails constraints with shared constraints
• An update on Griffon’s simple-jpa plugin
• A sample Griffon application with the simple-jpa plugin
• Using Grails REST for authentication in an Angular.JS single page application
• Mark Reinhold while mentioning those who contributed to the Java 8 release thanks our very own Cédric Champeau from the Groovy project for his useful bug reports for Java 8
• Vivek Garg explains how to integrate Tumblr within Grails applications
• Uday Pratap Singh shows how to apply layout to template at runtime in Grails applications

Presentations

• Baruch Sadogursky discusses creating DSLs which support plugins written both in Groovy or Java, addressing good public API design practices, security, and classpath isolation. Presentation given at SpringOne2GX 2013

Code snippets

• Cédric Champeau created a solver for the addictive 2048 game using Geb and Groovy
• Tim Yates plays with the RxJava’s Groovy support

Tweets

• A handful of door busters tickets for GR8Conf Europe 2014 are still available
• MrHaki, alias Hubert Klein Hikkink, is starting work on a Grails goodness book
• André Steingreß noticed how light the documentation related to Ratpack’s Groovy support is… perhaps it’s time to help and contribute?
• Tip on how to set headers for a url.text Groovy call
• If you want to learn more about Gaelyk’s developments from Gaelyk’s lead developer Vladimír Oraný’s own mouth, don’t miss this session from the Greach conference
• Sébastien Blanc shows a screenshot of a Grails backend using AeroGear unified push server

Other news

• First speakers of the GR8Conf Europe 2014 event are being announced
• Jacob Aee Mikkelsen’s weekly Grails diary
• I forgot to mention the previous week Grails diary in my latest Groovy Weekly column

Books

• You can support Hubert Klein Ikkink’s Groovy and Grails goodness efforts by buying the Groovy goodness book
• Orest Ivasiv reviews Ken Kousen’s “Making Java Groovy” book

Events

• A GR8Ladies meetup in Minneapolis, MN (USA) on March 21st
• The GR8Ladies will be at Women Techmakers, in Minneapolis, on March 22nd
• The Call for Papers of the SpringOne2GX 2014 conference will end on April 30th
• The Greach conference is offering 23 books and 27 ebooks to win for the attendees
• Gradleware reminds that *you* could be a presenter at the Gradle Summit 2014!
• Hubert Klein Ikkink (alias MrHaki) will be presenting a getting started Grails university session for the NLJUG on March 25th