Groovy Weekly #62
Following-up last week’s decision of the Groovy team to join the Apache Software Foundation, this week, a proposal has been made and submitted, and Apache has announced it on its blog. So the process is now really officially started and on its track!
Releases Grails 3.0 RC-1 released GVM 2.4.0 released with broadcast and offline checks optimizations Groovy Grails Toolsuite 3.6.4 released with Groovy 2.4 support Articles The Groovy team and Apache members collaborated on a proposal to join the Apache Software Foundation Matt Raible interviewed Guillaume Laforge about Groovy moving to Apache Darryl Taft from eWeek is covering the proposal of Groovy to join the Apache incubator Paul Krill writes on CIO “dumped by Pivotal, Groovy moves to Apache” Kay Ewbank on Groovy joining the Apache Software Foundation Groovy hands-on, in French A new Griffon / JavaFX tutorial is available A flamewar against Gradle which is said to suffer from the halting problem Allegro Tech is sharing its success story adopting Gradle News The Apache Software Foundation announces Groovy’s submission to become an official Apache project At the Adobe Summit, Time Warner Cable announced some of its Gradle plugins to work with Adobe tools A very interesting contribution from JetBrain’s Peter Gromov has been merged into Groovy’s master to speedup compilation OpenCSVIterator: a useful library for processing flat text files in Groovy and Java GR8CRM, a suite of Grails plugins for Customer Relationship Management by Göran Ehrsson A nice online Groovy playground by Tim Roes Presentations Great introduction to Groovy by Michał Mally at the Groovy user group in Poland Groovy for Java developers, by Peter Ledbrook, recorded during SpringOne2GX 2014 Groovy browser automation with Geb, by Colin Harrington, recorded at SpringOne2GX 2014 A video introduction to Gradle for Android Studio Tweets Cédric Champeau is annoyed when people reduce Groovy to just a “dynamic” language when it’s much more than that Ken Kousen tasting a Groovy Smoothie Matthew McCullough Groovy JMeter plugin is moving to Github, like the many Google Code projects following Google’s closing GrooScript plugin working for Grails 3 RC-1 Mailing-list posts The Groovy incubation proposal is being discussed on the Apache mailing-lists Podcasts Ken Kousen published Groovy Podcast episode 8 Code snippets Using RxJs from GrooScript with Groovy’s @BaseScript transformation Books You can find Ken Kousen’s Making Java Groovy book code samples on Manning’s website Events Registration for SpringOne2GX 2015 is open Guillaume Laforge will be speaking about Groovy’s continuous delivery at the SwampUp conference At the Gradle Summit, Netflix’ build team will share lessons learned about Gradle plugins