Grails with Spring Security

1. Overview of Spring Security Integration with Grails Spring Security touts a number of authentication, authorization, instance-based, and various other…

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X-Mas Musings – Too Many Paths. One Path Spec?

December is for many people a period of reflection or thought. So I decided to reflect upon last year’s things…

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Adding a “lite” Groovy web console to a Grails war

Suppose you have a Grails application deployed to a server – how would you go about finding out how the…

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X-Mas Musings – Do Not Use Random Server Port in Grails Integration Tests

December is for many people a period of reflection or thought. So I decided to reflect upon last year’s things…

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Why is Spring’s Health Down, Down, Up, Up, Up and Down again?

Why Our new JavaScript client application regularly calls the /health endpoint of our Grails backend to determine on- of offline…

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Grails 3.3 Integration Testing with Spock Mocks

It is easy to use the Spock Framework, shipped with Grails, to mock or stub a collaborator (such as a…

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Grails 3.3 has Spock 1.1

You’ll be glad to know that milestone 1 of Grails 3.3 has been released 3 days ago — and is…

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Grails Anti-Pattern: Everything is a Service

The context Grails makes it very easy to put any logic of your application in a service. Just grails create-service…

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Grails Anti-Pattern: Locally Optimized Dynamic Finders Everywhere

The context Grails makes it very easy to persist and find stuff using domain classes. It uses GORM (Grails’ Object…

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