No big focus this week in the editorial, but as in the previous edition, I’d like to remind you about the following infrastructure changes, as we move the Groovy project through the incubation process at Apache: the JIRA issue tracker has moved, and don’t forget that the Groovy mailing-lists are also moving. The novelty this week is that the Apache Git repository is now the new mainline, but you can contribute pull requests on the Apache Groovy Github mirror. Read more...

We’re only mid April but what a year it’s been so far! From Groovy & Grails’ loss of funding, leading Grails to a new home at Object Computing Inc. and Groovy at the Apache Software Foundation, to Guillaume Laforge joining Restlet and Cédric joining GradleWare. Against all odds, Groovy released its 2.4 version with the Android support, and the big 3.0 release of Grails saw the light of day. And on another personal note… I’ve finished my first marathon! Read more...

I hope you all had a Groovy Easter, with baskets full of eggs and chocolate! Little update on the Groovy infrastructure, as the project moves into incubation at Apache, the JIRA issue tracker has moved, and don’t forget that the Groovy mailing-lists are also moving. Releases SwissKnife 1.2.3 released, the Swiss knife for for Android development with Groovy Ratpack 0.9.15 released Spock Subjects Collaborators Extension 1.0.3 released by Marcin Grzejszczak Grails 3. Read more...

Today marks the end of the sponsorship of the Groovy and Grails projects by Pivotal. The projects are now turning a new page in their lives. For Groovy, the project is going to wear some feathers, with joining the Apache Software Foundation. And Grails is releasing its major 3.0 version. With Groovy’s move to Apache, it’s important to notice that the Groovy mailing-lists are moving. You must subscribe to the new mailing-lists at Apache, as we won’t force-subscribe people, so you’ll have to opt-in to these new lists. Read more...

The big news today is that Groovy has now passed the vote for entering the Apache Software Foundation incubator! Thus, in the coming weeks and months, while going through the incubation process, you can expect some changes in terms of infrastructure (moving sources, issue tracker, mailng-lists, etc) to be taking place, but don’t worry, we’ll keep you informed along the way. This past week, we’ve had some new releases of Groovy, as well as the second release candidate for Grails 3! Read more...

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

Big news for this week with the intention of the Groovy project to join the Apache Software Foundation! And if you wnat to know more about who actually contributed to Groovy over the years, Cédric detailed that on his blog. Releases GMavenPlus 1.5 released GrooScript 1.0.1 released GrooScript Gradle plugin 1.0.1 released Android-Spock 1.2 released working with Spock 1.0 GVM 2.3.0 released with new “outdated” command to know if newer candidates are available Articles Guillaume Laforge announces the intention of the Groovy project to join the Apache Software Foundation Cédric Champeau wrote a very interesting and insightful analysis on who contributed to Groovy over the years John K. Read more...

This round number edition is pretty busy! Last week ended with a pretty sad note, with the news of Leonard Nimoy’s passing, the famous vulcan extraterrestrial from Star Trek. This certainly resonates with the Groovy community (and geeks & fans out large) because of our very own Spock testing framework. So let’s all gather and have a thought for this great actor and for his family. But as a tribute to this great actor and character, the long awaited news is that the Spock testing framework releases its 1. Read more...

Groovy keeps rocking with a joint release of Groovy 2.4.1 and also a 2.3.10! And did you notice the nice new design of the new Grails website, based on Groovy’s website? That’s a family look! Also, I’d like to end this short editorial with a big congrats to the GVM team who’s reached the 100,000 unique installs! That’s a big milestone! Releases Joint releases of Groovy 2.4.1 and Groovy 2.3.10 GMavenPlus 1. Read more...

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 (additional coverage following last week’s announcement). The Gradleware team delivered Gradle 2.3! Congrats guys! And closer to home, a very important discussion about moving Groovy into a foundation has started, inviting members and representatives of different foundations to join and offer their views and experience on the matter. Read more...