Introduction to Planning Poker

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

PHP and Flash Integration

Learn how to create real-time collaborative apps with PHP and LiveCycle Collaboration Services.

Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties

In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a separate "audit log" table where...

10 replies - 19450 views - 08/27/08 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

Parallelize your arrays with JSR 166y

The JSR-166y, which I described earlier in the post dedicated to the fork/join functionality is really amazing in how nicely it shields developers from dealing...

0 replies - 6945 views - 08/26/08 by vaclav in Articles

Rapid Web Application Prototyping with Maven and Groovy

Utilizing both Maven and Groovy you can rapidly prototype web apps, and in this blog I'll walk you through exactly how to do that. First we are going to create...

1 replies - 8156 views - 08/14/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

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...

0 replies - 2859 views - 08/13/08 by Andres Almiray in News

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...

6 replies - 7432 views - 08/13/08 by Andres Almiray in News

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...

0 replies - 7521 views - 08/11/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

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...

0 replies - 6382 views - 08/03/08 by Jill Tomich in News

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...

0 replies - 2493 views - 07/30/08 by Arun Gupta in Blogs

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:

0 replies - 2133 views - 07/29/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

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...

1 replies - 2394 views - 07/24/08 by Andres Almiray in News

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...

0 replies - 1151 views - 07/23/08 by Hamlet D'Arcy in News

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...

2 replies - 2216 views - 07/21/08 by Geertjan Wielenga in News

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...

0 replies - 5824 views - 07/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

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...

0 replies - 5246 views - 07/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

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...

2 replies - 3964 views - 07/15/08 by Greg Brown in News