Grails For Spring Developers

Published June 22nd, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Beside doing an overview of the Grails framework, Jeff Brown shows how to write a Spring-integrated application in Grails. Some of the topics covered are: Spring Beans in Groovy, DI in Grails, Grails and Spring MVC, Database transaction management and remoting with Spring in Grails.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Grails-For-Spring-Developers

Design Your Own DSL with Groovy

Published June 8th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

Guillaume Laforge explains what makes Groovy to be better suited to create a DSL: closures, meta-programming, operator overloading, named arguments, a concise and expressive syntax, demonstrating how to write a DSL in Groovy.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Design-Your-Own-DSL-with-Groovy

Industrial Strength Groovy

Published May 25th, 2010 Under Configuration Management, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Paul King presents some of the tools helping one programming in Groovy: Cobertura – code coverage, CodeNarc – code style, EasyB – acceptance tests, GroovyDoc – documentation, GroovyMock/Spock – mocking and testing, Hudson – CI builds, Maven/Ant/Gant/Gradle – build files, OSGi – bundles, and Spring/Guice – dependency injection.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Industrial-Strength-Groovy

Grails Plugin Testing

Published May 3rd, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In the last year or two, there has been a veritable explosion in the number of Grails plugins out there. Without proper testing, however, they run the risk of falling into disuse as users avoid them. In this interactive session, we will use several techniques to test different aspects of a Grails plugin. This will include functional testing via Selenium RC and testing of scripts.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/grails-plugin-testing

Christian Dupuis on SpringSource Tool Suite

Published April 12th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

Christian Dupuis, Principal Engineer with SpringSource, discusses SpringSource Tool Suite’s Groovy, Grails and Roo support, Cloud Foundry integration, and future plans for the product.

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/christian-dupuis-sts

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