New Blog: Pooling Web Service Connections in Grails
Apache Commons Pool is a great tool to easily configure an object pool on the JVM. Having a pool of created objects helps when you need to reuse connection objects that are expensive to create (LDAP,...
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Curious about the tooling functionality that front-end developers now have at their fingertips? Bower? Grunt? Gulp? Yeoman? We will have a look at these tools, how they fit together, how they compare...
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New Blog: Awesome Asciidoc: Write Extensions Using Groovy (or Java)
We can write extension for Asciidoctor using the extension API in Groovy (or any other JVM language) if we run Asciidoctor on the Java platform using AsciidoctorJ. Extensions could also be written in...
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New Blog: Awesome Asciidoctor: Use Asciidoctor Diagram with Gradle
Since Asciidoctor 1.5.0 we can use extensions when we write AsciiDoc documents. These extensions can be written in Ruby or any JVM language. If we use Gradle and the Asciidoctor Gradle plugin to...
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New Blog: Grails Goodness: Add Banner to Grails Application
Grails 3 is based on Spring Boot. This means we get a lot of the functionality of Spring Boot into our Grails applications. A Spring Boot application has by default a banner that is shown when the...
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New Blog: Grails Goodness: Add Some Color to Our Logging
Grails 3 is based on Spring Boot. This means we can use a lot of the stuff that is available in Spring Boot now in our Grails application. If we look at the logging of a plain Spring Boot application...
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New Blog: Gradle Goodness: Alter Start Scripts from Application Plugin
For Java or Groovy projects we can use the application plugin in Gradle to run and package our application. The plugin adds for example the startScripts task which creates OS specific scripts to run...
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New Blog: Spocklight: Only Run Specs Based On Conditions
In a previous blog post we have seen the IgnoreIf extension. There is also a counterpart: the Requires extension. If we apply this extension to a feature method or specification class than the method...
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New Blog: Spocklight: Undo Changes in Java System Properties
If we need to add a Java system property or change the value of a Java system property inside our specification, then the change is kept as long as the JVM is running. We can make sure that changes to...
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New Blog: Grails Goodness: Run Gradle Tasks In Grails Interactive Mode
To start Grails in interactive mode we simply type grails on the command line. This starts Grails and we get an environment to run Grails commands like compile and run-app. Since Grails 3 the...
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