This week we explore Grails Testing support.

We know, we wanted to discuss the Grails Testing Plugin but we had some difficulties finding a lot of time and getting the latest version installed. So we decided to discuss the outcome of the Groovy Awards instead.

Groovy Award Winners

• Peter Ledbrook (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/peter-ledbrook)
  ... for Mailing List support and plugin authorship (JSecurity, GWT, Profiling, Remoting, Testing)
  
  

  Marc Palmer (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/marc-palmer)... for the Documentation
  ... for the Plugins (Feeds, Mail, Authentication, Postcode, Static Resources, Grails documentation)
  
  Danno Ferrin (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/danno-ferrin)

  ... for Griffon (probably the biggest thing to come out this year)

  
  
  Marcel Overdijk  (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/marcel-overdijk)
  ... for Prolific Plugin support (Xtemplates, I18N templates, RefCode, OpenID, YUI, Ext plugin, Sifr Plugin, PeekInGrails)
  
  
  
  
  Burt Beckwith (http://www.groovyawards.org/nominate/show/burt-beckwith)
  ... for Mailing List support

Show Notes

• Success Story: sky.com relaunched using Grails
• WineLovers - Grails Testing Example Application SVN | Scott Davis at Oklahoma JUG explaining Grails Video
• BDD with Java & Groovy 
• Creating BugZilla Tickets with Groovy
• Better Groovy Code Completion in latest Netbeans 
• Sun Netbeans supports Groovy Portles in Liferay Portal Server
  
• Ken Kousen  on "Making Swing Groovy": Part One  and Two
• Snapshots of Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta-2 
• Guillaume Laforge Podcast Interview 
• Guillaume Laforge's Blog Post about Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta-2
• JideBuilder 2.0 released
• Griffon Interview at Dzone
• New Griffon Sample: PleaseBrowseMe introduction and demo  and behind the scenes (making of).
• Xtemplates Plugin released
• GRAG 1.0 released
• Grails Jabber Plugin released with Blog Post discussion
  
• JSecurity Plugin 0.3  released
• Background Threads Plugin released

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We would like to find out a bit more about Groovy's latest project: Griffon.

The SoapBox of this episode is about the P6Spy Plugin: P6Spy is an open source framework to support applications that intercept and optionally modify database statements.

• Groovy & Grails Twitter Cleaner Pipe
  
• Grails Event Model Article (InfoQ, IBM DevWorks )
• BootStrapping Grails with Spring Batch
  
• RESTful Grails Article
• Grails & Acegi Presentation
  
• Looking for a Grails Job?
  
• itconversations podcast with DHH on "The Great Surplus"
• Grails Remoting wiht Hessian, Burlap and HttpInvoker
  
• Internal Domain Specific Languages with Groovy (DSLs) Presentation
• Gant or Ant? Introduction to Gant.
  
• Griffon Links
  
• Using the Grails LiquiBase Plugin Blog Post
  
• New work on the EasyB Grails Plugin 
• Grails Debug Help Plugin
  
• Grails Mail Plugin 0.4  Released
• Effective Testing on Grails London GGUG Event
  

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This week's poll on the Grails Podcast asks about the new site. (don't forget you can get the source from github!)

Show Notes
Besides all the news, we also discuss Marc Palmer's excellent Feed Plugin, which makes all your RSS/ATOM needs a piece of cake. It is also used for the podcast feed of this site (with iTunes specific metadata)...

• Jason Rudolph opensourced his Keynote presentations 
• CoGSole - Web Based Grails IDE released by SAP
• Grails Cheatsheet  PDF now in draft.
• Long list of Grails Sample Apps  which are fully open source
• Pessimistic Locking  blog entry (id, version, content, created, enclosure_length, enclosure_type, enclosureurl, tags, title)
• Griffon 0.0  released
• Getting Started with Swing MVC and Griffon  at DZone (incl GrailsSnoop grabs)
• Grails Crowd Plugin 0.4 released
• Datasources Plugin released
• Remoting Plugin 1.0 released
• Hudson Plugin requests feedback
• GroovyAwards Source on github. Go and vote.
• Grailspodcast.com launches in beta on mor.ph 

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In this Grails Podcast Interview with James Ervin we talk about all things Groovy Eclipse Plugin. James is Twittering about the Groovy Eclipse Plugin @GroovyEclipse and also be sure to check out his Blog at http://iacobus.blogspot.com. If you want to join the Groovy Eclipse Team or would like to provide some kind of sponsorship for this project as a company, mail the Grails Podcast at grailspodcast@gmail.com and we'll be happy to connect you.

This weeks SoapBox topic is Security. We have tried out the jSecurity Plugin and the Authentication Plugin and both give you and idea what to expect from them. Both were easy to get started with, but hear it yourself.

• grailscrowd.com launched
• Gigafile.asia launched
• Unit Testing Controllers with the Testing Plugin  article
• Using Oracle Coherence with Grails  article
• Using GORM outside of Grails  article
• MetaBuilder  released
• Include Plugin 0.3 released
• Updated FCKEditor Plugin released
• Avatar Plugin released
  
• Grails UI Performance  plugin and Yahoo's Rules for Faster Loading websites.
• NEW: Podcast Voicemail: +1 408 3319 118 (you can listen to your recording and skip or record again after presssing #)
  http://hansamann.podspot.de/files/grails_podcast_episode_64.mp3

In the SoapBox we discussed the JCaptcha Plugin, which is also used for the comments functionality of this Grails Podcast Blog.

• Bill Bejeck tutorial on Flex and Grails
• RPU's blog on mocking file uploads
• Peek in Grails - Adobe Air widget for Grails Reference docs
• Groovy Reference Card
• DZone Interview with Andy Glover
• JSilhouette 0.1 released
• PasswordKeeper port released.
• Groovy to Approach Java speed? on CK's blog.
• Glen's BIRT Plugin released.
• Grails Runtime Logging Plugin v0.3 
• Include Plugin released
• jBPM Plugin released
• GrailsFlow 0.3 Workflow and Process Engine released

http://hansamann.podspot.de/files/grails_podcast_episode_63.mp3