GrailsTechnology

Run Grails application as standalone application

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 […]

Sanchit
Sanchit
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GrailsTechnology

Using Hibernate Events with PersistenceEventListener

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. […]

Grails

JavaScript based internationalization in Grails

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 […]

Grails

GR8Conf EU 2016 – Highlights

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 […]

GrailsJava/JVMTechnology

Getting Started With Azure Blob Service Using Grails

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 […]

GrailsTechnology

A day before GR8Conf EU 2016

It’s finally here. The 2016 edition of GR8Conf EU in Copenhagen is starting from today. We have been coming to GR8Conf EU from last 5+ years. Just like every year, the line-up of sessions & speakers is really great. The Global part of the conference is accentuated by the attendees & speakers who are coming […]

Grails

Hooking into the Instance methods of the GORM API

In my grails plugin I was needed to add some fields that were common to a set of domains. For eg: for some domains we wanted to store fields like createdBy and lastUpdatedBy to keep track of users who created and last updated each record in that domain. Grails framework provides timestamping using which we […]

GrailsTechnology

GR8ConfIN 2016 – For the GR8 developers in town RECAP

It was indeed an amazing GR8Conf IN 2016 with more than 200 participants, marvelous line-up of speakers and fully packed parallel sessions at The Lalit, New Delhi. This year the conference was sponsored by OCI, which is the new home for Grails. The entire conference was also live streamed by #fame with more than 4000 […]

Mansi Arora
Mansi Arora
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Application SecurityTechnology

How I discovered RCE through a Misconfigured plugin

We have seen a lot of applications where some sub-domains or sub-directories are publicly exposed (intently or by mistake). So, with experience from our past pentests we have made a habit of testing  for vulnerable or accessible sub-domains. During one of such testing, I was manually testing the URLs of different sub-domains of the application and […]

Ankit Giri
Ankit Giri
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