JBoss Microcontainer Series

In part 4 of his Microcontainer series, Ales Justin looks under the hood at JBoss MC's varous classloading features.

Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

Lightweight meets Heavyweight: Spring, Groovy and the enterprise

As I am preparing for the 2G conference next month, one of the things I am most struck with is again how seamlessly Groovy and Spring can play together. These...

9 replies - 6287 views - 01/31/08 by John Carnell in News

Groovy 1.5.3, hot off the presses

A few regressions were found during the first days of the previous release (1.5.2.) Because the Groovy team and G2One are commited to high quality in their...

0 replies - 1378 views - 01/31/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Spicing up your drawings with filters

Anyone that has done serious development on Java2D has surely come acroos Jerry Huxtable's amazing filter collection, but creating such eye catching images may...

0 replies - 2058 views - 01/31/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Is there room for both Rails and Grails in a company?

For the last week, I've been knee deep learning more about Rails and Grails. The reason is because I think developers (and companies) are going to have a hard...

20 replies - 3860 views - 01/30/08 by Matt Raible in News

Is LINQ leaving Java in the dust?

Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...

3 replies - 9840 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News

MetaProgramming with Groovy I

Groovy is a dynamic language for the JVM not only because it supports dynamic typing (and static typing as well) but because it lets you modify and enhance...

1 replies - 6240 views - 01/30/08 by Andres Almiray in Articles

Groovy 1.5.2 out of the oven

The Groovy development team and G2One, the Groovy / Grails professional services company have just released a new bug fix release of Groovy 1.5, with the 1.5.2...

7 replies - 4045 views - 01/29/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

What's the Status of NetBeans IDE's Groovy Editor?

Geertjan Wielenga is a Sun employee, part of NetBeans IDE community and NetBeans IDE Zone Leader here on DZone. He worked on the Groovy plugin for NetBeans...

1 replies - 4152 views - 01/29/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Quick observable beans

In recent years we have seen the rise of POJOs which differ from JavaBeans as they are not usualy made to be observable, in other words, they do not publish...

2 replies - 1731 views - 01/27/08 by Andres Almiray in News

From Java to Groovy in a few easy steps

Groovy and Java are really close cousins, and their syntaxes are very similar, hence why Groovy is so easy to learn for Java developers. The similarities are...

18 replies - 13808 views - 01/27/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

Groovy Google Grabber -- Using Groovy to Find Out How Many Pages Your Domain Has Listed in Google

David Walsh posted a PHP snippet that would check Google to see how many pages are listed for a given domain. I thought it was interesting so I decided to...

3 replies - 2043 views - 01/24/08 by Craig in Tips and Tricks

A Groovy world: why framework configuration APIs matter

Somebody is writing the next big framework as you're reading. It could be a new OR mapper, a new web framework, a build system or a dependency injection...

0 replies - 1479 views - 01/23/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Migrating a Rails app to Grails

There's an interesting trend I've seen happening at companies over the last year. More and more, they're experimenting with Rails and/or Grails for both...

4 replies - 2928 views - 01/23/08 by Matt Raible in News

Grails & Dojo: Part I

I've been working on integrating Grails and the recently released Dojo 1.0.2. I'm particularly interested in the Dijit components that are now part of Dojo....

0 replies - 6544 views - 01/23/08 by Pratik Patel in News

Which IDE supports Groovy best?

Recently I got a lot of advice about Groovy and IDE support. In the recent past, I tried other IDE plugins for Groovy and was less than impressed. Yesterday...

13 replies - 8345 views - 01/23/08 by Rick Hightower in News