Grails 3 comes with lots of new features and performance improvements, one of them being Interceptors which is a kind of a replacement for Filters from earlier versions of Grails. Filters are used to apply logic across the whole group of Controllers, URI, or to a particular action and are used in most of the Grails projects. Though, you […]
Documentation is a very important aspect in any software development project because it helps us to understand how our software application works. Recently, I have been trying to give back to Grails community by updating existing plugins to Grails 3, creating and updating documentation of Grails plugins and by opening bug report. Mostly Grails 3 plugins […]
Most Grails application are intended to deploy within external container. According to the traditional way of deployment, the apps are bundled as war packaging, deploy it into any external container like tomcat and Jetty. There is a plugin Standalone App Runner which allow to em-bade a container inside the grails application itself. The advantage of that […]
Kong is an open-source, customizable, Nginx-based and scalable API middleware (API Gateway).Kong can be configured in front of any RESTful API and let the developers concentrate more on implementing business logic without caring about functionalities like authentication mechanism, rate limiting, logging, internal communications between APIs, carrying out communication with public entities and other organizations. It’s […]
In my last blog, we discussed how to hook into GORM API to add some common custom functionality. We will refer the same problem that we discussed in my last blog. Here is the problem statement: In my grails plugin I was needed to add some fields that were common to a set of domains. […]
Generally Internationalization is used for displaying HTML text based on user’s locale or region. This is often done on server side of the application. Of late a lot of applications do the HTML generation on the client side, rather than on the server side. And to support the internationalization on client side is a common problem […]
The day one of conference at GR8Conf EU had amazing line-ups of back to back talks. There were three simultaneous tracks for Grails, Groovy, and Gradle. Everyone was very excited and engaged in serious selection of which sessions to attend. The first talk of the day was on “Feeling Groovy: Experiences as a Groovy Developer in […]
Many of you already know about Microsoft Azure, which is a cloud based computing platform infrastructure for deploying, and managing applications and services globally. One of its most useful service is the blob service, which is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured data, whether text or binary data which is easily accessible from […]
The day one at GR8Conf EU June 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark which is university day was pretty awesome with lots of hands-on exercises or labs in each session. Also, we got very cool mugs following are the pics: The first day of the GR8Conf went beyond our expectations. The atmosphere, the sessions and the speakers really made […]