Groovy Goodness: Share Data in Concurrent Environment with Dataflow Variables

To work with data in a concurrent environment can be complex. Groovy includes GPars, yes we don’t have to download…

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Grails Goodness: Custom Data Binding with @DataBinding Annotation

Grails has a data binding mechanism that will convert request parameters to properties of an object of different types. We…

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Grails Goodness: Adding Health Check Indicators

With Grails 3 we also get Spring Boot Actuator. We can use Spring Boot Actuator to add some production-ready features…

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Grails Goodness: Log Startup Info

We can let Grails log some extra information when the application starts. Like the process ID (PID) of the application…

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Grails Goodness: Save Application PID in File

Since Grails 3 we can borrow a lot of the Spring Boot features in our applications. If we look in…

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Gradle Goodness: Handle Copying Duplicate Files

In Gradle we can configure how duplicate files should be handled by the Copy task. Actually we can configure how…

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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…

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Gradle Goodness: Rename Ant Task Names When Importing Ant Build File

Migrating from Ant to Gradle is very easy with the importBuild method from AntBuilder. We only have to add this…

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Gradle Goodness: Continue Build Even with Failed Tasks

If we run a Gradle build and one of the tasks fails, the whole build stops immediately. So we have…

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