Groovy Calamari - Issue 81

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15 days to GR8Conf EU (see ticket give-away below) and things are started to accelerate: Grails 3.3 is in Milestone 1.

3.3 is a big release for the Grails team with many cool features. Some of those features are covered in this issue. Keep reading!

Groovy

Goodtimes - Java 8 Date/Time API enhancements for Groovy

For those of you who work with Java 8 and Groovy, this Open Source contribution by @bdkosher will make you happy.

The Groovy JDK adds useful methods to java.util.Date and java.util.Calendar but as of yet does not include comparable methods for the newer Java 8 Date/Time API classes.

Goodtimes fills this gap by providing these java.time extension methods, as well as new methods on java.util.Date and java.time.Calendar for converting to java.time equivalents

News

GR8Conf EU Ticket Give away

Do you want to come to GR8Conf EU? I am giving a ticket away among the newsletter readers. Just answer this email in the next 24 hours and tell me that you would like to come to GR8Conf EU. I will raffle the ticket among the people interested. I will announce the winner on Wednesday.

See you in Copenhagen.

Spock

Grails 3.3 has Spock 1.1

@tvinke shows one of the features of Spock 1.1. Better support for java.util.Optional.

Grails

Grails 3.3.0.M1

I normally don't link to Milestone releases but 3.3 is a big milestone for Grails with mayor improvements and features:

New Events API of Grails Async
GORM 6.1 features. See the link below about Multitenancy for a good example.

Test your app with 3.3.0 and give feedback. You can download 3.3.0.M1 with SDK and compare to see the necessary changes.

Database per Tenant Multi-Tenancy

The newest Grails Guide by @graemerocher

Learn how to leverage Multi-Tenancy features of GORM 6.1 to build an application using a unique database per tenant

Understanding Database Transactions and Hibernate Sessions in Grails

@jonaswitt spoke in the Berlin Groovy User Group about Transactions and Hibernate Sessions.

Really glad to see such topic talked about. A tough topic which gets few attention.

Gradle

Grolifant

If you thinking about Gradle Plugin Development experts, @ysb33r probably comes to mind.

To make our life easier, he has published Grolifant:

A Library to Support Gradle Plugin Development