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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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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Grails 3 Released: Installing Gradle and Groovy 2.4 Support in Eclipse/GGTS

Grails 3 has been released with a ton of new features. If you’re used to adding a new Grails distribution…

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What’s new in Grails 3

A few days ago Grails 3.0 was officially released. Grails is now based on Spring Boot, the build system changed…

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Basic Groovy and Grails Code Review Guidelines

I’ve been – and still am – teaching Grails to non-Java programmers for a while now. This also meant to…

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Integrating jOOQ with Grails Featuring the UWS-jOOQ Plugin

Introduction Grails is a web framework aimed to boost development productivity. One of the main features is domain centric database…

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