Grails has a good mechanism for including JavaScript Libraries to do all that fance Ajax stuff. It all starts with: <g:javascript library="scripaculous" /><g:javascript library="scripaculous" /> Library can be one of yahoo, prototype, dojo, scriptaculous or rico. It’s a nice fact, that Grails doesn’t force you to use any special of these. I wanted to change […]
I always thought that the Java Thread API is something… strange. If you work in a frontend application, things like running long-running tasks in the back without having the GUI ugly frozen and not responding should be somewhat simpler. SwingWorker has been around for quite a time but made it just recently into the core […]
I’ve never thought that my little little post would made such an impact. While writing that post i was frustrated explaining the Spring configuration to my colleaques again, i was frustrated over the url mappings and so the post was a little harsh. I don’t think that Hibernate is inferior to Active Record, regarding Spring […]
Why is it, that you have to take at least 2 heavy frameworks (Spring and Hibernate), a scripting addition to Java (Groovy) and build another layer on top of it to achieve a fraction of RoRs functionality? At least, i seems to look nice… a lot of xml configuration madness less, nice urls and so […]