News from November, 2006

There is a great 4-page article by Harshad Oak on the BEA Dev2Dev site that introduces Groovy & Grails. Check it out!

Mark Petrovic has posted a new tutorial on how to profile a Java application's security requirements.  The discussion is sufficiently general to encompass the treatment of Grails webapps.  Find the tutorial here.

The  Grails  presentation at WJAX (Munich, Germany) is available for download/online viewing. Audio recordings will be available in a few days both for German (thanx a lot to the organizer for recording!) and English. You are invited to use / modify these presentations for your own Grails presentations (see Tutorials section), spread the word! Please watch and comment here. All comments will be used to update the presentations.

The Grails team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Grails 0.3 over at the Download page. This releases packs in a load of new features and bug fixes that together count for over 114 JIRA issues. Some of the highlights of this release are:

• Huge advancements to GORM with many-to-many support, improved inheritance support, new relationship management methods, a more concise syntax and more
• Support for batch DML queries
• Improved support for environments with the ability to specify different data sources, log configurations on a per environment basis
• Support for the JSR-220 defined Hibernate merge method as a dynamic persistence method
• New GSP tags for helping with forms and so on
• The runtime configuration engine has been entirely re-written and Grails now boostraps loads faster
• Support for user defined validators
• Many, many bug fixes and improvements

Thanks to all those who contributed and to the ever growing Grails community. We have big things planned for 0.4, so stay tuned

We've just put Grails 0.3.1 up on the Download page. This release serves to address some minor niggling issues with 0.3, and since the next 0.4 release is going to see some significant refactoring done to the codebase the Grails team felt that addressing these issues via development snapshots was not wisest thing to do

Enjoy!