Grails version 2.0 and above made unit testing much simpler with so many new annotations introduced. However if you wanted to mock a specific method of a class whose method is being tested or you wanted to create a stub of the class already annotated by @Mock, things would become difficult. So I always ended up […]
After attending the recent Groovy Grails conference in London recently, I realized how much one can learn from a conference. One gets exposed to some fresh ideas and trends that can really be enriching as a professional. Meeting like minded people and sharing the ideas during the course of the conference is just an added […]
The day two at GGX ’13, London continued to be spell binding and fun filled. The sessions, again, were really nice and proved to be valueable and insightful. Here are some of the highlights: Road To Grails 3.0 – By Graeme Rocher The session started with overview of the new features of Grails 2.3 and […]
The day one at GGX 2013 London was really awesome. The atmosphere, the sessions and the speakers really made the day wonderful. We could feel the buzz and energy of the thriving and closely knitted Groovy/Grails community all day long. The show was very well managed by Skills Matter and nicely driven by Peter Ledbrook. Here […]
We were trying to implement SSL-based login and registration (i.e. HTTPS) in an e-commerce web application which was otherwise using the non-secure protocol (i.e. HTTP) for the entire website. Instead of moving the entire web application to SSL, which would have increased response times, we thought it would be best if only the authentication part […]
Multiple parallel sessions on Groovy, Grails & Spring started from early morning sharp at 8:30 am till 6:00pm. So many options/sessions to choose from. Here are the few highlights from sessions that we attended during the day. Real world applications with Spring Data Neo4j by Michael Hunger : Shared many interesting use cases of neo4j […]
The long awaited SpringOne2GX event started with registrations followed by the key note from Adrian Colyer, CTO, SpringSource. There were around 1200 attendees, making it the largest ever SpringOne2GX event. Many significant developments were shared today. A snapshot of these are: # Spring has launched its new site. # Grails 2.3.0 got released. # Got […]
Data binding is the technique of binding two data sources to maintain the synchronization of data which in reference to grails stands for binding incoming request parameters onto the properties of an object or entire graph of objects. These methods allow user to write clean and shaping code without littering the script and data with […]
OAuth is a secure mechanism to access google drive. In order to access google drive in your application you need to register your application at the google API console at Google API Console. Read the blog Integrating Google plus in grails application by Vishal Sahu to see how to get client ID, client secret and […]
