Peter Ledbrook
GORM Gotchas (Part 3)
It's great to hear that people are finding these articles useful, so it's with great pleasure that I add another to the series. This time I'm going to talk about associations again, but with the focus on when they are loaded into memory. Update 2 Aug 2010 I have added more information on eager fetching Read more…
Spring MVC 3 Showcase
Since the big Spring 3 release last year, I've been working on a number of application development projects and extracting "showcases" of various framework features. These "showcases" are not reference applications or tutorials, they're more like acceptance tests for specific framework capabilities. After seeing a showcase, you should have a good idea of what the Read more…
Grails tooling improvements in SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3 M2
The recently released STS 2.3.3 M2 introduced a series of enhancements to our Grails support for Eclipse. In this article I'll be discussing what you can expect to find if you try it out (grab it here: SpringSource Tool Suite). Groovy-Eclipse The grails tools actually build on and extend the Groovy-Eclipse support, which is developed Read more…
Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 Released
I'm pleased to announce we've just released Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2 (download here). We've also concurrently released SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M2, which offers the latest integration with this new Spring Roo release. For production use we recommend you continue to use Spring Roo 1.0.2, although we know a very large number of people are happily using Read more…
Introducing the Flex Addon for Spring Roo
Recently we released the first milestone of the Flex Addon for Spring Roo as a part of the Spring BlazeDS Integration 1.5.0.M1 distribution. This addon aims to bring the productivity and usability benefits of Spring Roo to the development of Spring-based RIAs with Flex. The below 15 minute screencast (split into two parts) serves as Read more…
5x startup performance boost in Virgo milestone M02
Virgo 2.1.0.M02-incubator is available for download. Apart from completing the "getting started guide", this milestone dramatically reduces startup time – by as much as 5x on some systems. This should be a further incentive for users of dm Server to migrate to Virgo: Virgo is the codebase for future development, has more liberal licensing, and Read more…
Peter Ledbrook
GORM Gotchas (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to some of the subtleties associated with persisting domain instances with GORM. This time, I'm going to tackle relationships with particular focus on hasMany and belongsTo. GORM provides only a few basic elements for defining relationships between domain classes, but they are sufficient to describe most Read more…
First Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Milestone Ships
Hot on the heels of the STS on Eclipse 3.6 and Gemini Web milestone announcements, I am glad to report that the first milestone of Gemini Blueprint is available for download. Part of the Gemini project, Blueprint builds on top of the Spring Dynamic Modules v2 code base and is the Reference Implementation for the Read more…
STS on Eclipse 3.6
Last week the Eclipse Foundation released the much anticipated next version of Eclipse. You can download Eclipse 3.6 aka Helios from SpringSource's member distribution page. Also check out the New & Noteworthy for this release. The Tools Team at SpringSource has been busy updating our developer tools to support Eclipse 3.6 and while we haven't Read more…
