Interview with Graeme Rocher about Grails

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Graeme is one of the founders, and also the current project lead, of Grails (formerly Groovy on Rails), a high level, open source, web application framework built on coding by convention principles (like Ruby on Rails)

Again the sound quality of this interview is not as good as we would have liked. We had to fall back on the skype recording due to no fault of anyone involved - sometimes it just works out that way. However the speech is clear and the content (thanks to Graeme) is first rate.

• Groovy - the language of Grails
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Groovy features:
• Groovy Markup for XML, DOM, ...
• Groovy Path expression language
• Groovlets for implementing Servlets easily in simple Groovy scripts
• Ant Scripting
• Groovy Categories allow you to add methods to classes with the "use" keyword
• Groovy Template Engines which are pluggable, simple to use, integrate GPath and compile to bytecode
• Groovy SQL for making SQL more Groovy
• Grails homepage
• http://grails.org/
• Installation
• http://grails.org/Installation
• Quick start
• http://grails.org/Quick+Start
• GORM - Grails Object Relational Mapping
• http://grails.codehaus.org/GORM
• Graeme's Blog (lots of Grails news here)
• http://graemerocher.blogspot.com/

• The Java Posse would like to thank
• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• To contact us:
• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com
• Theme Music:
• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
• Closing - Garageband track
  

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Listener Feedback Makeup Session

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• Ruby on Rails sites:
• http://www.odeo.com
• http://www.cdbaby.com
• http://www.tagtooga.com/ruby&#43on&%2343rails/
  sites&%2343using&%2343rails&%23431
• Private, Final defaults:
• "The Final Story" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardcorejv/chapter/ch02.pdf
• "JSR 277: Java Module System" http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
• "RFE: Add Immutable types to Java"
  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4617197
• "Add Nice Option types to Java to prevent NullPointerExceptions"
  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5030232
• Thinlets:
• thinlet "classic" homepage http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/home.html
• examples of thinlet apps http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/showcase.html.
• thinlet FAQ http://xul.sourceforge.net/thinfaq.html
• rewritten version available soon from http://www.thinlet.com
• project on java.net https://thinlet.dev.java.net/
• what looks to be a very good ide for thinlet (written with thinlet)
  http://www.carlsbadcubes.com/theodore
• a form designer (written with thinlet) http://thing.sourceforge.net/
• netbeans support for thinlet visual design https://thinnb.dev.java.net/
• jedit plugin support (not visual)
  http://www.beanizer.org/index.php3?page=thelper
• an extension to thinlet allowing scripting of components with beanshell, javascript, jython or groovy
  http://sjobic.club.fr/thinlet/index.html
• a lightweight rss reader called thinfeeder http://thinfeeder.sourceforge.net/
• thinlet add-ons and community contributions http://thinletplus.com/
• thinlet dtd http://thinlet.dev.java.net/thinlet.dtd
• skinlet - skinnable thinlet http://www.realchat.com/thinlet/
• thinlet who's-who http://thinlet-contrib.sourceforge.net/who.html
• official thinlet blog http://thinlet.blog-city.com/
• Leeerooooooyyyyy Jennnnkiiiiinnnnnsssssss!
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins
• Overuse of getters and setters:
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2005/jw-0321-toolbox.html
• Tor's GBracha Blog Link
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gbracha?
  entry=developing_modules_for_development

• The Java Posse would like to thank
• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• To contact us:
• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com
• Theme Music:
• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
• Closing - Garageband track
  

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Newscast for April 19th 2006

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Main News Items

• Google calendar released
• http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6529480715.html
• http://calendar.google.com
• Eclipse 3.2 RC1 released
• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t69878.rhtml
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/
  S-3.2RC1-200604131718/index.php
• Project Darkstar more than it seems?
• http://www.platespiller.com/whitepaper,434,0.jspn
• http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t53623.html
• What do java and swing need to be ready for a full-on desktop assault?
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2005/03/why_dont_you_sh.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/flozano/archive/2005/04/how_to_make_jav.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/gbracha?
  entry=developing_modules_for_development
• New blueprint AJAX components available for Creator / JSF
• http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/
  reference/code/samplecomps/?feed=DSC
• James Gosling has an interview with eweek up at AJAX impact
• http://www.ajaximpact.com/detail_news.php?id=80
• Applet (and Game) of the week - Battlefield
• http://www.playbattlefield.com/battle/welcome.do

In Short News Items

• Nokia have submitted JSR 293 - the location API 2.0 - to the JCP
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=293
• Sun is going to donate Jini to Apache as an incubator project
• http://www.jini.org/
• http://archives.java.sun.com/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0604&
  L=jini-users&F=&S=&P=4029
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39931
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/nidaley/archive/2006/04/jini_300000_tes.html
• Free K12 computer science learning resources
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12298074/from/RSS/
• Oracle's whitepaper titled "A hype-free introduction to AJAX"
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/schalk-ajax.html?
  rssid=rss_otn_news
• There is now a TestNG plugin for netbeans 5.0 available
• http://blogs.sun.com/xzajo?entry=test_ng_plugin_for_netbeans
• http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/xzajo?entry=try_testng_4_6_with
• It is now official that Java Studio Enterprise is being open sourced
• http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-04/
  sunflash.20060411.1.xml?cid=155
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/netbeansday.jsp
• Minq software has announced version 5.0 of their product Dbvisualizer
• http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/info.html
• Aonix has announced the Java 5 update to PERC
• http://www.aonix.com/pr_04.04.06b.html
• 1060 research has released netkernel 3.0 - a simple to use RESTful (Representational State Transfer) microkernel and application server
• http://www.1060research.com/netkernel/
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39839
• Bruce Eckel has announced firm dates for his next open space conference "Thinking in Java" which is to be held in Crested Butte, CO from July 18th to the 21st
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155261
• The second Rio Java Summit has been announced for May 6th 2006 in Rio De Janeiro
• http://riojavasummit.com/
• Java ME mobility pack development on the Mac is possible
• http://blog.sun.com/roller/page/lukas/20051020

• The Java Posse would like to thank
• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• To contact us:
• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com
• Theme Music:
• Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://www.loosebrucekerr.com
• Closing - Garageband track
  

The Java Posse is distributed under the Creative Commons License

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