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Groovy Podcast Ep. 6 Show Notes

• Groovy 2.4.0 was released during the last episode of the the podcast.

  • Android support built-in + a Gradle plugin
  • Methods moved from Collection to Iterable + some other methods added, such as size()
  • groovysh getting some love

• Gradle 2.3 RC2 was released yesterday

  • Improved Gradle Build Comparison plugin
  • Better Eclipse WTP integration
  • Tooling API can now generate coloured output - contributed by Lari Hotari

• Grails 3.0.0.M1 was released

  • Use latest Java patch versions
  • Minimum JDK 7 for importing into IntelliJ - looks like a binary incompatibility in AssetPipeline plugin
  • Gradle for the build
  • Standalone mode
  • Functional tests with Geb
  • YAML in config files
  • init dir has Application.groovy --> spin up app in IDE (from Spring Boot)
  • can run war file using java command from command line

• Ratpack 0.9.13 released

  • Application startup changed - now have RatpackServer
  • New registry mechanism outside of request handling

• Grooscript 1.0.0 released

• Groovy in Action 2nd Ed. goes to production

• Spring One 2GX announced for 14-17th September, 2015

  • Still the usual 4 tracks on Groovy & Grails