Blog IT – Mateusz Mrozewski

This Christmas we got great presents from Grails and Groovy teams.

Grails 1.2 has been released:

• dependency resolution DSL
• performance optimization - mainly through view layer changes
• bootstrap has an environment support - different bootstrap for different envs
• Spring 3 is now supported
• URI re-writting - now you can map any URI, even static resources, to a pretty URI
• transactions in services can now be handled and configured per service method
• more control over DataSources
• global configuration over GORM defaults - for example you can set default contraints for all properties
• improved support for boolean dynamic finders
• named queries support
• SQL restrictions in criteria builder
• hasOne mapping - FK can be stored in the child instead of the parent association
• failOnError in save() method
• annotations in domain classes
• precompilation of GSP pages
• Tomcat is now default container
• WebFlow is now a plugin and has some new events
• named URL mappings
• improved JSONBuilder
• better date parsing
• null safe converters in params
• g:form can now pass other methods then POST and GET (which supports better REST)
• project documentation engine - document your project just as Grails is documented
• plugin improvments - release as ZIP and plugins metadata
• improved g:formatNumber and g:formatDate to be compatibile with JSTL
• a few changes to testing

For a full list and examples visit Grails 1.2 Release Notes site.

And the news from Groovy camp are also impressive. Groovy 1.7 has been released:

• anonymous inner classes and nested classes support
• annotations taken to a next level (for example Grape annotation on import statements)
• Power Asserts - asserts are now more readable
• better support for AST Transformations
• customize Groovy truth with asBoolean() method
• smoe improvements in Groovy Console and Groovy SQL

For the full list of changes and some examples please visit Groovy 1.7 release notes.

Grails, Groovy