On using Groovy and Grails and the Java Persistence API with MySQL

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2008/07/sample_store_ca_2.ht\
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Martin Paulo, BSc.
Software Developer

Tel : +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
Tel : 04 205 20339 (Mobile)
Site: http://www.thepaulofamily.net
Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/

"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.

This is a new grails tutorial site just in time for us Noobs :P


www.grailstutorials.com

Good evening (at lest when I write this) I'm very new to Groovy on
Grails, my future father-in-law got me interested in it. Thank you for
letting me join your user group, I was wondering if you meet and if so
when, also what are the levels of knowledge for Groovy within the
membership?

IntelliJ is definitely the tool to use for developing Groovy and in particular
Grails apps. I
have used eclipse before and it is pretty good, and I have plaid with Netbeans
which is
improving, but IntelliJ has all the nice things that you want such as
re-factoring.

It also supports lots of the Gant scripts within the environment for doing
Grails work such
as creating controllers, domains and services etc. It is also very cool how it
knows all the
related assets when working within a certain file - such as all views and
controllers being
1 click away when working with the domain class.

Well worth the investment for the time it will save you..

RJ


--- In groovy-melbourne@yahoogroups.com, "Shravan Gurrala" <shravan.g@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Martin and all New to Groovy,
> Am new to groovy and i find GroovyConsole very handy when i want to try out
> few
> snippets. If you are doing more serious programming i would looking into
> IntelliJ.
> If you are a poor programmer like me then i think Eclipse is a good option
> even though
> its not as fancy as IntelliJ....there is not much there if a text editor
> like ultraedit or jedit
> doesn't cut.
>
> BTW: The groovy podcast was very good. Thanks for that.
> cheers
> Shravan
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Martin Paulo <martin.paulo@...>
> wrote:
>
> >   Hi all
> >
> > Lots of "ands", but: anyone who is not on the VJUG mailing list, and who
> > missed Brents talk to the Groovy User Group on the Meta-Object Protocol
> > might like to see him reprise it tomorrow night to the VJUG.
> >
> > Details can be found here:
> > https://victorianjug.dev.java.net/2008/April/April.html
> >
> > There is a copy of Intellij being given away, which reminds me: IDEA have
> > just released an update to their Groovy/Grails plugin. This may be of
> > interest to this group. Details can be found here:
> > http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/groovy_grails.html?nl
> >
> > And the question: being new to Grails/Groovy, what tools are you all using
> > for Groovy/Grails work?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > --
> >
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> >
> > Martin Paulo, BSc.
> > Software Developer
> >
> > Tel : +61-3-9434 2508 (Home)
> > Tel : 04 205 20339 (Mobile)
> > Site: http://www.thepaulofamily.net
> > Web Log: http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/
> >
> > "Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded" - Yogi Berra.
> >
> >
>

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I don't know of the top of my head, but maybe you can try asking here
http://www.nabble.com/codehaus---Groovy-f11866.html

Hello,

Could someone please let me know why this assertion is incorrect.  I
hava an Addresss object with three properties. Each time I access the
Address I would like to initialize it with empty strings or keep the
values if they already exist.

class Address
{
      String aptNum, poBox, zip

} // Address

class AddressIni
{
      Address address;

      AddressIni( Address address )
      {
          this.address = address;
          address.aptNum ?: ""
          address.poBox ?: ""
      }

} // AddressIni

      Address address = new Address( aptNum : '300' );

      AddressIni ai = new AddressIni(address);

      assert "300" == ai.address.aptNum
      assert "" == ai.address.poBox ////////// INCORRECT ASSERTION - WHY


Why is the last assertion wrong. I expect the address.poBox property to
be initialized to "" in the AddressIni class. Somehow this does not seem
to happen.



Thanks.

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A Groovy New Year to All !

There will not be a user group meeting tonight, 7th Jan 2008.

We will organize a meeting and presentation for the first Monday in
February.

Rgs, James.

All,

The next groovy user group, Mon 3rd December will be presented by
Brent Snook, from Aegeon.
The topic for this month is the Meta Object Protocol, and if you want
to know the awesome
power of groovy then this is a session not to be missed.

If your coming along, please let me know so I can work out the pizza
order.

Rgs James.

The Groovy User Group meeting is on this Monday 12th at 6:30pm.

The topic this month is grails in a nutshell. A quick 101 on what
grails is all about and why you should use it.

We hope to see you there.

Rgs, James

Aegeon, Level 5, 10 Queens Rd, Melbourne.

All,

Monday 5th November is the day before Melbourne Cup Day, so we
are moving the user group to the following Monday, 12th November.

Have a great Cup Day and see you at the user group.

Rgs, James.

This is great news!!!!

http://www.anyware.co.uk/2005/2007/10/10/grails-and-groovy-get-financial-backing\
/

Thank you to Dr Paul King and thank you to everyone who attended the
first Melbourne Groovy User group meeting at Aegeon.

We had a good turn out and the slides and video will be posted as soon
as possible.

We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting which is the first
Monday of each month (Monday 5th November).

The topic of the next meeting will be a brief introduction into
grails, an application generation, framework and life-cycle tool,
similar to Ruby's Rails.

Rgs, James.

Please don't forget that the first Melbourne Groovy User Group meeting
will be on Monday 1st October.

Please let others know it is on and to join this group form more
information.

Don't forget, Paul King co-author of Groovy In Action is presenting !

All,

We are very excited to announce that Paul King a co-author of the book
"Groovy In action" (Manning) will be attending the Groovy User Group
hosted by Aegeon on Monday 1st October.

Please spread the word so we can make a really good turn out for Paul
and for the first user group meeting.

The meeting will be held in the Aegeon office, Level 5, 10 Queens Rd,
Melbourne from 6:30pm.

Rgs, James.

All,

We are planning to hold the user group meetings on the first Monday of
each month, starting on 1st October 2007.

We are also planning on having some special presenters and some book
give-aways.

We hope you will let your friends know about the group and bring them
along with you.

Keep well,

Rgs, James.

The following groovy-melbourne poll is now closed.  Here are the
final results:


POLL QUESTION: We plan to hold a meeting on one day per month from 6:30pm -
8:30pm and would like to know which day of the month suits most people?
For example, the first Monday of each month?

CHOICES AND RESULTS
- Monday, 3 votes, 23.08%
- Tuesday, 2 votes, 15.38%
- Wednesday, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Thursday, 2 votes, 15.38%
- Friday, 0 votes, 0.00%
- First Week, 4 votes, 30.77%
- Second Week, 2 votes, 15.38%
- Third Week, 0 votes, 0.00%
- Last Week, 0 votes, 0.00%



For more information about this group, please visit
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne

For help with Yahoo! Groups, please visit
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/

Please let us know which day of which week you would most like the
user group to meet.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne/


--- In groovy-melbourne@yahoogroups.com,
groovy-melbourne@yahoogroups.com wrote:
>
>
> Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
> groovy-melbourne group:
>
> We plan to hold a meeting on one day per month from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
and would like to know which day of the month suits most people?
> For example, the first Monday of each month?
>
>   o Monday
>   o Tuesday
>   o Wednesday
>   o Thursday
>   o Friday
>
>
> To vote, please visit the following web page:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne/surveys?id=2224797
>
> Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
> not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
> web site listed above.
>
> Thanks!
>

I think we should have a meeting in the not to distant future. Seems to be a but
of interest
around Groovy and Grails....

--- In groovy-melbourne@yahoogroups.com, "scottwarrenshaw" <scottwshaw@...>
wrote:
>
> Fantastic to see some interest in Groovy and scripting languages in
> general.  I'm really interested to see what people might be using it
> for since Ruby seems to have stolen the limelight.  When's the next
> meeting?
>
>  - Scott
>

Here is a framework that I came across this evening. Part of an IBM incubator -
another web
framework that is using Groovy.

http://www.projectzero.org/wiki/bin/view/

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
groovy-melbourne group:

We plan to hold a meeting on one day per month from 6:30pm - 8:30pm and would
like to know which day of the month suits most people?
For example, the first Monday of each month?

   o Monday
   o Tuesday
   o Wednesday
   o Thursday
   o Friday


To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/groovy-melbourne/surveys?id=2224797

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

Thanks!

Fantastic to see some interest in Groovy and scripting languages in
general.  I'm really interested to see what people might be using it
for since Ruby seems to have stolen the limelight.  When's the next
meeting?

  - Scott