Debugging Grails 3, Spring Boot or Gradle with Eclipse

This is a small post for those who’s primary IDE is Eclipse for developing Grails 3 apps or plugins —…

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Groovy for Java Developers?! Meet Gradle, Grails and Spock

What are some of the most interesting Groovy use cases for Java developers? Although it’s been around for a while,…

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So If You’re Using Tag Libraries for Your View Models You Have To Test Them, Right?

In a previous post I introduced thinking about (visual) components and used a Task Browser as an example of an…

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Building GORM Criteria Queries Dynamically

I originally wrote most of the queries in the spring-security-ui plugin using HQL because I find it more intuitive than…

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Grails 3 DataSource Configuration

Grails 3 has new configuration files and format.  The new format is based on YAML and the file name to…

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Grails Design Consideration #2 – Throw In a View Model Once In a While – Ted Vinke’s Blog

This is my take on how we could design our particular user interface in such a way that they’re re-usable,…

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Custom User types in GORM

Recently, I wanted to model a Merchant which like many things in a domain model had an Address. I thought…

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Using separate Postgres Schemas for the same database in a Grails App

Recently, I wanted to use the same Postgres Database but split my persistence layer into separate components which used separate…

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Grails’ JSONObject.NULL More or Less Equal To Null

Since Groovy 1.8 we can check if a Map is equal to another Map if the keys and values are…

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