Spock has support for Hamcrest matchers and adds some extra syntactic sugar. In an expect: block in a Spock specification method we can use the following...
0 replies - 1302 views - 05/18/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
We can run test code with Gradle using the test task that is added by the Java plugin. By default all tests found in the project are executed. If we...
0 replies - 2611 views - 05/16/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Running tests in Gradle is easy. Normally if one of the tests fails the build fails as well. But we don't see immediately in the command-line output why a...
0 replies - 3303 views - 05/14/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
There was a time when CORBA
was all the rage and was as trendy and popular as any favored
technology that has come along since. Although CORBA does not get...
0 replies - 2002 views - 04/22/13 by Dustin Marx in Articles
Since Grails 2.1 we can create a Grails wrapper. The wrapper allows
developer to run Grails commands in a project without installing Grails
first. The...
0 replies - 92 views - 04/16/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Using Groovy to test not only other Groovy classes but also Java classes
is an increasing popular approach given frameworks like Spock which
facilitate...
0 replies - 4597 views - 04/15/13 by Geraint Jones in Articles
Problem with mappings
In our project we came across a really big problem related to mapping.
Having two systems that initially were defined by the BA to...
0 replies - 3628 views - 04/11/13 by Marcin Grzejszczak in Articles
Unfortunately, Java applications taking advantage of multiple threads can at times run into the dreaded deadlock condition. Fortunately, the Java Platform...
0 replies - 3125 views - 04/02/13 by Dustin Marx in Articles
Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and (even managed in some cases) via...
0 replies - 1081 views - 03/26/13 by Dustin Marx in Articles
We can configure Spring beans using several methods in Grails. We can for example add them to grails-app/conf/spring/resources.xml using Spring's XML syntax....
0 replies - 3976 views - 03/25/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
In preparation for my Grails vs. Play Smackdown at Devoxx France next week, I recently upgraded my Grails version
of Happy Trails from Grails 2.0.3 to Grails...
0 replies - 1298 views - 03/25/13 by Matt Raible in Articles
We can define extra Spring beans for our Grails application in grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy using a DSL. For example we want to use third-party...
0 replies - 2574 views - 03/18/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Grails uses dependency injection by convention. This means if we have a property messageService then a Spring bean or Grails service with the name...
0 replies - 1093 views - 03/14/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
We can define new bean definitions in several ways with Grails. One of them is via the grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy
file. This file is parsed and...
0 replies - 2847 views - 03/12/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Whilst previous posts have looked at the use of RESTClient, this post will concentrate on its parent class, HTTPBuilder and also touch briefly on the...
0 replies - 1103 views - 03/12/13 by Geraint Jones in Articles
