News from September, 2007

The latest version of the GWT plugin is now available. Highlights of this release:

• Uses the final 1.4 release of GWT (1.4.60).
• Existing services can be used to provide data for the client interface.
• The remote and async RPC interfaces are created and managed automatically.
• Compiled javascript files are now kept in separate module-specific directories.

The very first release version of the Grails dbmigrate plugin is now available in the plugin repository:

• Supports migration from one version of your database schema to the next through
  the execution of either SQL scripts, Groovy scripts or Java classes
• Migrates both on application launch or from the command line
  • grails migrate
• Automatically creates the next SQL script to be filled out
  • grails create-migration

Designed to be very similar to 'rails migrate' this plugin will make it very easy to keep your various database instances in synchronization with one another and with your Grails code.

The second release of the grails-maven-plugin is now available. You'll find the full list of changes on jira

In this release you can now use this plugin for maven 2.0.5+ with grails 0.5.6 and 0.6. For those 2 versions you'll find all-in-one POMs for grails. Dependencies used by grails but not available on the central repository are defined with a system scope (maven will load them from your grails installation). More important we deployed this version of the plugin on the central repository which simplify enormously its usage (just 3 lines to add in your user settings)

Don't hesitate to report issues and propose enhancements on our tracker and on our mailing list.

Have Fun with Grails and Maven.