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...

Following the conference-driven development principle, right in time for the Devoxx conference and my session with my friend Patrick Chanezon on Google App Engine Java and Gaelyk/Groovy, I’ve just released a new version (0.3) of the Gaelyk lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine. This new version fixes a bug, adds some new capabilities, and bring a small change: The Google services bound to the Groovlets and templates through the binding have been renamed (except userService) to remove the service suffix There are some new methods for working with the memcache service, so you can use the map notation (subscript) to access elements of the cache, as well as using the ‘in’ keyword to check whether a key is present in the cache. Read more...

Gaelyk is a lightweight toolkit for developing and deploying applications on Google App Engine. As Google recently released an updated version of their Google App Engine SDK, providing support for XMPP/Jabber messaging and Task Queues, I’ve worked on a new Gaelyk version providing support for these new features, with a Groovy touch. Gaelyk can be downloaded here: http://gaelyk.appspot.com/download/ You can have a look at the latest tutorial updated with coverage of: Read more...

Time flies, soooo fast! Griffon, the Groovy MVC framework for building desktop applications, is already one year old. Developers know Groovy and Grails very well, but there are many other Groovy-based tools and frameworks, and Griffon is a very nice and successful animal of the Groovy ecosystem. Others are already celebrating this first anniversary on twitter, as well as in the blogosphere, like some of the Griffon developers: Jim Shingler James Williams Andres Almiray Josh Reed Danno Ferrin With tons of plugins, books in the writing, Griffon is really gaining a lot of momentum and mindshare! Read more...

Une fois n’est pas coutume, je bloguerai en français dans cette catégorie tech, pour vous annoncer la sortie du podcast des Cast Codeurs ! Les Cast Codeurs, c’est un podcast en français dans le code sur Java par Emmanuel Bernard (JBoss / Hibernate), Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource / Groovy), Antonio Goncalves (freelance / Paris JUG lead) et Vincent Massol (XWiki / Maven). Restez informés sur les sujets brûlants de l’industrie Java. Plongez sur un sujet précis avec l’interview de l’éposiode. Read more...

The news has already spread all around, even on our mailing-lists, but let me echo it again here: Groovy is now supported in the newly released Google App Engine Java platform! My friend Didier Girard beats me to it and had already blogged about the support of both Java and Groovy (in French). He was quicker than me… or at least woke up earlier than me ;-) SpringSource’s worked with Google to ensure that Groovy would run well on their platform. Read more...

I’m pleased to announce here the organization of a European conference dedicated to Groovy, Grails and Griffon:GR8 Conference — Copenhagen — May 2009 The GR8 Conference is an affordable two-day conference taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on May 18th and 19th 2009, organized by Javagruppen(Danish JUG) and SpringSource, dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies — hence the pun and code name GR8. Read more...

There’s always a lot of activity around Groovy and Groovy-related technologies, but these days, it’s pretty hot! First of all, InfoQ released my “What’s new in Groovy 1.6?” article going in depth into all the new features of Groovy 1.6, with explanations and code samples. Please vote for it on DZone (Guerilla Marketing rulezzz) If you want to attend a Groovy / Grails / Griffon dedicated conference, you should definitely go to the GR8 Conference, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in May. Read more...