JBoss Microcontainer Series

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

Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta2 released

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch...

6 replies - 4924 views - 10/09/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Groovy tutorial at ApacheCon US 2008 (New Orleans)

Paul king writes on the Groovy user list that he will be giving a Groovy tutorial at ApacheCon US 2008, seems like the schedule is not final yet, so if you are...

0 replies - 1617 views - 10/09/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Snapshots of Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta-2

Guillaume Laforge has posted on the Groovy lists that snapshot packages of the upcoming 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta-2 versions are up for grabs.

0 replies - 1604 views - 10/07/08 by Andres Almiray in News

JVM Language Summit 2008 Report

Thoughtworker and DZone MVB blogger Ola Bini recently attended and blogged from the JVM Language Summit that took place in Santa Clara, California last month....

0 replies - 6712 views - 10/06/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Interview: The Making Of... Griffon

Griffon, the Groovy framework for Swing developers, was released a few weeks ago. Promising a consistent source structure for Swing applications, as Grails has...

3 replies - 6343 views - 09/29/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

fusemetrics - Build Metrics Dashboard

If you have been using CI for quite sometime, you probably have a wide array of metrics for your projects - code coverage, complexity, coupling, bugs, tests,...

8 replies - 5180 views - 09/29/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Concurrency in JSR-166y Meets Groovy: Process Collections in Parallel

How about parallel processing of elements stored in one of the java.util.* collections? Could we make the Groovy each(), collect() and such methods leverage...

3 replies - 3759 views - 09/26/08 by vaclav in News

Ant or Gant?

Yes, this is exactly what I am frequently asked by my clients and many developers. It isn't easy to answer this question. There are several  projects using...

34 replies - 15633 views - 09/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

How Griffon Helps MigLayout

A surprisingly undervalued aspect (judging by how little one seems to hear of it) of Groovy is its support for web services. Literally, this is all it takes...

0 replies - 10286 views - 09/19/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

MigLayout: Inevitable Choice for Griffon Users?

It seems to me that in the same way that Griffon will make Groovy an ever more viable option for Swing developers, so it will make MigLayout increasingly...

21 replies - 6444 views - 09/18/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Is easyb Easy?

I was introduced to easyb by none other than the creator of easyb: Andrew Glover. In spite of hearing and reading a lot about easyb from Andy, I never had a...

13 replies - 15902 views - 09/17/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Porting to Griffon

In Flying with Griffon, I created a simple scenario in Griffon, to show how this new Swing MVC framework functions and what some of its benefits are. A...

0 replies - 11865 views - 09/15/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Flying with Griffon

New frameworks come and go. They tend to stand and fall based on whether people start experimenting with them. The new Griffon framework is unlikely to fall...

2 replies - 10409 views - 09/12/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

Getting Started with Swing MVC Development on Griffon

Griffon is to the desktop what Grails is to the web. (And its 0.0 release was today.) That's more or less all that needs to be said about it, if you're...

3 replies - 13727 views - 09/11/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

MetaBuilder: a builder for builders

The title says it all, MetaBuilder is a builder that let's you create other builders. Dave Masser-Fryehas released this project under the Apache Software...

0 replies - 1993 views - 08/31/08 by Andres Almiray in News