groovy
Quick Tip: How To Include Logback Configuration In Grails Plugins
By default, Grails excludes the logback.groovy file (among others) when plugins are assembled into JAR files, and for good reason. A plugin should not include the logger configuration, since the plugin would unexpectedly influence the configuration of the applications that include it.
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Extend existing Java classes with Groovy extension modules
I've been working on an update to the http-requests library, and wanted to remove the Groovy dependency to make it more portable. I like a lot of the conveniences Groovy affords the library, as well as some of the entity converters that use Groovy classes, so I wanted to find a way to still provide those features even after ripping Groovy-specific methods out of the main interfaces.
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Introducing The http-requests Library
I’ve recently put a lot of work into a new library I’ve named http-requests. I had previously written a project called jersey-request…
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Simplifying Jersey Client with a builder-style syntax
I recently looked into an issue my friend was having with an HTTP call and its failure to correctly convert JSON. The conversion problem is…
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JAX-RS and HashMaps
I started working with the Grails framework recently when I started working for my new company. We were writing an application that provided…
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