Find out how to leverage the Ruby and Rails support in NetBeans 6.0, and then learn some techniques for deploying Rails applications on a Linux server efficiently.... more »

JetBrains has just announced the final availability of JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for productive Ruby development. With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning, productivity-boosting features to Groovy and Grails and provides unsurpassed Groovy support in the Java IDE.... more »

Java Web application frameworks have been one of the important reasons for the success of enterprise Java. One wonders if Java EE would have been so successful without the Apache Struts framework. Although the underlying programming language is important, it's often the frameworks that bring the language into the limelight. If you have been following the discussion forums, you will have noticed how that's also the case with the Ruby language and the Ruby On Rails framework. Ruby has been around for more than a decade, yet only after the Ruby On Rails framework became a runaway hit did developers start noticing the Ruby language.... more »

The biggest development of Groovy and Grails in relation to NetBeans IDE happened yesterday: "Groovy and Grails support in NetBeans has been enabled on Development Update Center." I mean, the most concrete contribution of Groovy and Grails support and the clearest sign that NetBeans loves Groovy (and Grails). The work done by Martin Adamek and Matthias Schmidt is now, for the first time, available in the update center for NetBeans Development Builds (i.e., for post-6.0 builds, hence, not in RC 2). They will not be part of the standard NetBeans IDE 6.0 distribution, because of timing and planning and so on, but anyone with a development build (obtainable from netbeans.org download page) can go to the Plugin Manager and look for Groovy:... more »

Groovy builders concept for handling (mostly creating) hierarchical documents. On the other hand I find StAX, pull-based processing API, to be one of my favorite methods for dealing with simple XML processing. It's simple and fast, so…... more »

Inserting variables into templates and then generating files from them, via Ant, is not new. Groovy has support for this too. How does it compare to the alternatives?... more »

Installation guide for the Groovy and Gant Toolset... more »

The Groovy and Gant Toolset lets you automatically generate Java Web service clients with Axis2, XFire, CXF, and Java 6 -- including WSDL compatibility checks.... more »

Java Web application frameworks have been one of the important reasons for the success of enterprise Java. One wonders if Java EE would have been so successful without the Apache Struts framework. Although the underlying programming language is important, it's often the frameworks that bring the language into the limelight. If you have been following the discussion forums, you will have noticed how that's also the case with the Ruby language and the Ruby On Rails framework. Ruby has been around for more than a decade, yet only after the Ruby On Rails framework became a runaway hit did developers start noticing the Ruby language.... more »

By now you probably have heard about JavaFX and if you are a Groovy enthusiast you also probably know that Groovy is not a good choice for creating UIs in a similar fashion as JavaFX does... right, someone must think you must be a developer only or a rocket scientist to be able to use the available builders in Groovy. Well the point of this post is not to bash JavaFX and the community behind it, but to show that Groovy is also a good option for developers and content builders alike. I do not need to show you how easy is to create an UI with SwingBuilder or (don't mind the plug) JideBuilder, there are plenty of examples in the net and a good chapter on GINA. But what Groovy has been lacking for a time is an easy way to work with Java2D, so its with great joy I'd like to introduce GraphicsBuilder, which is as you probably guessed, a builder for working with Java2D, interested? let me show you a sample of what's currently available... more »