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Andres Almiray08/13/08
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Interview with Andrew Glover

Andrew Glover is the man with the plan when the Java platform and testing meet. Groovy Zone interviewed this charismatic speaker and well known personality in the Groovy community about Easyb, the behavior driven development framework for the Java platform...

Andres Almiray08/13/08
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JavaFx: the hidden threading rule

The following post is the result of my latest JavaFx Script experiments mixed with Stu's Java.Next series (1,2). Alright, so Stu decides to showcase how the Java.next languages interop with Java the language, and to do so he chose a Swing based...

Meera Subbarao08/11/08
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Spring and Scripting

Spring is among the handful of Java application frameworks that is widely used in many enterprise projects. It has become a viable alternative to the more standard JEE technologies. One of its stengths is the support for scripting languages. Spring 2.0...

Jill Tomich08/03/08
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Groovy Refcard Available - Download Now

Groovy is a dynamic language for the Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM). It shines with full object-orientation, scriptability, optional typing, operator customization, lexical declarations for the most common data types, advanced concepts like closures and...

Arun Gupta07/30/08
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Grails on GlassFish v3 - Embedded or Stand-alone

Grails 1.0.3 was released a few weeks ago. This blog uses the instructions originally posted here and shows how to deploy a simple Grails application on GlassFish.

Geertjan Wielenga07/29/08
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Setting Preferences in Groovy; Retrieving Preferences in Java

In the past two days I've been figuring out how to use Groovy scripts to generate NetBeans projects:

Andres Almiray07/24/08
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Groovy NetBeans tips

Fellow zone leader Geertjan Wielenga has written a couple of posts on Groovy and NetBeans, celebrating the fact that NetBeans 6.5 milestone 1 is out, which much delight for Groovy and NetBeans fans as it contains good support for both Groovy and Grails. Here...

Hamlet D'Arcy07/23/08
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Metaprogramming in Groovy Pecha Kucha

The Groovy Users of Minnesota, a user group in the U.S., created a cool 6 minute presentation on metaprogramming in Groovy. The format is a pecha kucha, which calls for 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. Check it out over on the GUM site:...

Geertjan Wielenga07/21/08
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Groovy-Based Agile Grails Learning

Here's my favorite bit about learning Grails, which I am doing in NetBeans IDE, via Jason Rudolph's brilliant "Getting Started with Grails" (I grabbed the free download here): I'm at the point on page 28 where we're creating "Meaningful Record...

Schalk Neethling07/21/08
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Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors

Frank Cohen will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers use PushToTest to turn their unit tests into functional tests in a test automation platform that runs...

Schalk Neethling07/16/08
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Agile Web Development with Grails

Agile Development is all about developing code and seeking feedback from your users to make sure you’re developing what’s relevant. When changes are suggested, they must be affordable and reliable.

Greg Brown07/15/08
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 3 - Web Queries

This is the third in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker. The previous article discussed event handling in Pivot. This section focuses on "web queries",...

Greg Brown07/07/08
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 2 - Event Handling

This is the second in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker. The previous article discussed building a user interface using WTKX, Pivot's XML markup language. This...

Ola Bini07/04/08
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Java and Mocking

I've just spent my first three days on a project in Leeds. It's a pretty common Java project, RESTful services and some MVC screens. We have been using Mockito for testing which is a first for me. My immediate impression is quite good. It's a nice tool and it...

Schalk Neethling07/04/08
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And the Winners Are... MyEclipse 6.5 License Winners

On 24 June 2008 Genuitec announced the availability of a new version of the MyEclipse IDE. Along with the announcement posted on the Web Builder Zone, Eclipse Zone, Ruby Zone, PHP Zone and Javalobby we launched a competition where 5 lucky DZone users could...