Occasional Thoughts

I'm glad to be able to depricate my own post Groovy++-with-Maven a couple of weeks ago. The Groovy++ team has already taken action and provides the groovvypp libraries in a commonly accessible repository. They also provide a preliminary version of the gmaven plugin that supports statically linked Groovy.

For details see Using-groovypp-with-maven  and also the related update Using-groovypp-with-maven (update).

Please see my update Official-Maven-support-for-Groovypp.

If you are already a fan of Groovy you probably will also be a fan of the rising star Groovy++. Even people that dislike the dynamic magic of Groovy must agree, that this is cool stuff, mixing the power of Groovy with the safety and performance of classical Java. Since Groovy++ is still brand new it lacks of any Maven support today. In the following I will show how you can tweak the GMaven plugin for using the Groovy++ extensions.

Please be aware that this is just a very quick work to get it running and might not be stable. For example I did not verify all the necessary dependencies. So further work has to be done.

As I already wrote I have visited the JAX conference last year. Two of the best sessions have been repeated at the W-Jax in Munich and are available online (both in German language):

• Angewandte Architekturkommunikation, Dr. Gernot Starke
• Java Programmierung im Multicorezeitalter, Angelika Langer
  

Robert Eckstein from Sun Microsystems has created a video tutorial that gives a quick, but great introduction to JavaFX.

However isn't it embarrassing that Sun is using Flash to deliver this video? Seems like Sun does not trust its own technology and rather uses the technology of a competitor. Would Microsoft ever use Flash for Silverlight tutorials? Hardly!

The Apache project in contrast seems to have more trust in the Java technology than Sun and delivers the keynote video for ApacheCon Europe as applet. And this applet proves that even Java applets can deliver Videos in just a few seconds using JDK 1.6u10.