I'm very pleased to announce an "official" release of the Grails Audit Logging Plugin. The Audit Logging plugin is designed to hook into any of the grails security plugins and record which user changed what values from which URI inside your grails application. It also adds an onChange event handler to your configured GORM classes that allow you to review the values in the class before and after the insert and perform conditional actions based on changes.

I've written in depth about the construction of this surprisingly simple plugin and I'm very happy to be able to make this contribution to the growing base of Grails plugins.

If you're going to JavaOne this year, and if you're interested in Groovy and Grails, you can't miss G2One's free Groovy / Grails meetup, Monday evening, 7pm, at the W Hotel, across the street from Moscone.

It's going to be a great opportunity to meet the guys behind both Groovy and Grails, learn about the latest news about these projects, see some cool demos, and hear about customers who've decided to use Grails in their projects. You'll be able to also get great Groovy books signed by authors Venkat Subramaniam and Scott Davis.

After an hour and half of keynote, testimonials and cool demos, drinks and apetizers will be provided, and after the break will take place the NFJS meeting with an interesting panel discussion.

So, to recap, we're pleased to invite you to the free Groovy / Grails meetup, on Monday 5th, at 7pm, at the W Hotel, across the street from Moscone.

Please make sure to register to confirm your presence.

The first german wiki for Groovy and Grails developers was launched: www.groovy-forum.de/wiki/ Join it and share your knowledge with other german speaking developers. 

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Grails application, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.

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After a long way we finally released 0.3 version of the Grails Quartz plugin (and as of a blocker bug in this release, 0.3.1 arrived in several hours).

In this release we primarily focused on plugin's configuration and flexibility as well as on fixing issues. Here's the list of implemented features:

• upgraded to Quartz 1.6.0
• plugin's configuration using 'grails-app/conf/QuartzConfig.groovy'
• new Grails script grails install-quartz-config which installs default config into your application
• multiple triggers per job configuration and support for custom triggers
• clustering and JDBC store support

Release notes and documentation are available.

Have fun!