Improving Groovy Console’s GUI
Groovy is a very appealing language that I really enjoy using from time to time. Unfortunately, as many other languages, Groovy lacks decent development environments. Even though this shortcoming is being addressed by the Eclipse and IntelliJ, the Groovy Console remains a valuable tool to quickly test an expression or a script. The console works [...]
Guillaume Laforge and Chet Haase
The first two pictures below show Guillaume Laforge, Groovy‘s project manager, speaking at G2One, the Groovy event that took place during Community One for JavaOne 2007 (gotta love those ones.) The third picture show Chet, the funny guy with whom I co-authored Filthy Rich Clients. More pictures from JavaOne 2007 to come.
Groovy and Grails Meetup in San Francisco
The No Fluff Just Stuff folks are hosting a meeting to gather Groovy and Grails community in San Francisco early next week. The day before JavaOne actually. It seems like a great opportunity to know more about Groovy and Grails or meet their community leaders. I will definitely attend and I highly suggest you to [...]
Persistence Made Easy with Groovy and JPA
I was recently looking into using JPA (Java Persistence API) in desktop applications to persist the UI’s state. After all, that’s what JSR 296‘s reference implementation relies on to save the frame’s size and position. There are several JPA implementations available out here and I have chosen TopLink from Oracle, as it comes bundled with [...]
JPA and Groovy
I have recently been playing with JPA, TopLink and Java DB (Apache Derby if you prefer) to manage date in Java SE applications. And I love those tools! It then dawned to me that I could make things even easier by using Groovy. Unfortunately, TopLink doesn’t seem to play nice with Groovy as none of [...]
