# Groovy Weekly #58

> Get your weekly Groovy update: Netflix's innovative scripting, the Gradle 2.3 release, and the vital discussion on Groovy's foundation.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2015-02-17 | Topics: groovy, groovy-weekly | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2015/02/17/groovy-weekly-58/


The past week’s been pretty calm, in terms of news, but a few of them really stood out.

[Netflix again leverages Groovy for scripting its user experience API](http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2015/02/11/how-a-netflix-tech-innovation-can-unleash-creativity-in-your-business/print/) (additional coverage following last week’s announcement).

The Gradleware team delivered [Gradle 2.3](http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/gradle-2-3-released)! Congrats guys!

And closer to home, a very important discussion about [moving Groovy into a foundation](http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Moving-Groovy-to-a-Foundation-td5722483.html) has started, inviting members and representatives of different foundations to join and offer their views and experience on the matter.

## Releases

*   [Gradle 2.3](http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/gradle-2-3-released) released
*   [Gradle 2.3-rc-3](http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/gradle-2-3-rc-3-is-now-available-for-testing) is ready for testing
*   [Spock-reports 1.2.4](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spockframework/008xHyM5DEI) released
*   [gServ 0.9.6](https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&item=5972153940031131649&type=member&gid=76751&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_weekly-hero-12-grouppost-0&midToken=AQES0rgmUQCbHg&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3j0nkf-NtM9CE1) released, a Groovy-based container-less REST framework
*   [GBench 0.4.3](https://twitter.com/nagai_masato/status/566531438795698180) released
    
## Articles

*   A Forbes article explains how a [Netflix innovation unleash the creativity in their business, thanks to Nicobar, their Groovy based scripting solution](http://www.forbes.com/sites/danwoods/2015/02/11/how-a-netflix-tech-innovation-can-unleash-creativity-in-your-business/print/)
*   Jaxenter on the ongoing discussion about [moving the Groovy project to a foundation](http://jaxenter.com/will-groovy-soon-eclipse-apache-project-114536.html)
*   Masato Nagai [benchmarks Groovy's as operator](http://nagaimasato.blogspot.fr/2015/02/gbench-043-released-lets-benchmark-as.html?spref=tw) between Groovy 2.3 and 2.4, using GBench
*   Jeff Beck writes about [Grails integration testing of complex transactions](http://beckje01.com/blog/2015/02/14/grails-integration-testing-of-complex-transactions/)
*   [Getting started with Android development using Groovy 2.4](http://hosain.net/2015/02/07/getting-started-with-android-development-using-groovy-2.4-and-android-studio.html) and Android Studio
*   [Releasing a project to Maven Central with Gradle](http://www.jroller.com/ie/entry/releasing_a_project_to_maven) by John McClean
*   [Geb and Gradle rules](http://davesmith.me//blog/2015/geb-gradle-rules.html) by Dave Smith
*   [Gradle rules](http://davesmith.me//blog/2015/gradle-devops-rules.html) by Dave Smith

## Mailing-lists

*   An important discussion on [moving Groovy to a foundation](http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Moving-Groovy-to-a-Foundation-td5722483.html)

## News

*   [Cédric Champeau becomes a JavaOne rock star](http://steveonjava.com/congratulations-to-the-2014-javaone-rock-stars/) thanks to his excellent presentation on rethinking APIs with traits during JavaOne 2014
*   Duncan Dickinson launches his [Groovy 2 tutorial series](http://www.groovy-tutorial.org/), with 4 tutorials on getting started, variables, operators, and control flow statements
*   You can vote for an [improvement to let Gradle-built IntelliJ IDEA projects support clickable source code files](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-136587) from the output window
*   [Grails Diary](http://grydeske.net/news/show/83) Week 7 of 2015 by Jacob Aae Mikkelsen
    
## Tweets

*   Cédric Champeau calls for feedback and [seeks advice on the idea of moving Groovy to a foundation](https://twitter.com/CedricChampeau/status/565548766946926592)
*   Andrés Almiray publishes the first Griffon tutorial for the next iteration of the Griffon website
*   The [GVM vendor API](https://twitter.com/marc0der/status/566758590472794112) is now in a dev environment
*   GrooScript updated its [groovy ecosystem frameworks](https://twitter.com/grooscript/status/565282808307150848) page
*   The JFrog crew earned a [JavaOne Rock Star title thanks to their Groovy puzzlers talk](https://twitter.com/jfrog/status/565589535862841346)
*   [Gradle 2.3](https://twitter.com/gvmtool/status/567274822141763584) available through GVM
*   The Groovy puzzlers guys are [looking for new Groovy puzzlers for their second season](https://twitter.com/groovypuzzlers/status/567316156411691009)!

## Code snippets

*   Tim Yates and Cédric Champeau are playing [Groovy code golf on Fibonacci](https://twitter.com/tim_yates/status/565490899963375616)
*   Tim Yates shares some [snippets combining Groovy and GroovyFX](https://gist.github.com/timyates/d97d613e4379434ff7a8)

## Podcasts

*   Episode 48 of the JavaPubHouse is about using [Groovy and Gradle for Java projects](https://twitter.com/fguime/status/566098122901041152)
    
## Events

*   Iván López will be speaking about being a [full-stack Groovy developer](https://twitter.com/ilopmar/status/565806105042120704) at the Spring.IO conference
*   Marco Vermeulen notes that [SpringOne2GX keeps its 2GX suffix and that the CFP is open](https://twitter.com/marc0der/status/566136563214876672)
*   Craig Burke will be talking about [Angular.JS in a Groovy world](https://twitter.com/craigburke1/status/566637455982731264) at GR8Conf US