After an exciting and eventful day one, we entered day two of GR8Conf IN 2017. Day two was pretty awesome with lots of hands-on coding and labs in each session. The day had three parallel tracks with amazing speakers. The atmosphere, the sessions and the speakers really made the day wonderful. Despite a cold day, we could feel...
Documentation is a very important aspect in any software development project because it helps us to understand how our software application works. Recently, I have been trying to give back to Grails community by updating existing plugins to Grails 3, creating and updating documentation of Grails plugins and by opening bug report....
The day one at GR8Conf EU June 2016 Copenhagen, Denmark which is university day was pretty awesome with lots of hands-on exercises or labs in each session. Also, we got very cool mugs following are the pics: The first day of the GR8Conf went beyond our expectations. The atmosphere, the sessions and the speakers really made the...
It's finally here. The 2016 edition of GR8Conf EU in Copenhagen is starting from today. We have been coming to GR8Conf EU from last 5+ years. Just like every year, the line-up of sessions & speakers is really great. The Global part of the conference is accentuated by the attendees & speakers who are coming from 20+ nations. ...
Java/JVM, Software development
SiteMesh is a very simple, lightweight & flexible Templating Solution framework for Java Web applications. SiteMesh can be used in lot more ways if we combine it with Spring boot framework. Configuring the SiteMesh with Spring Boot is little bit tricky but not complex, as we need to create a custom filter and then inject it into...
To run springboot appllication there is a task "bootRun" which compile and run the application for one deployment lifecyle. This is good enough for the production, where auto compilation is not required. In the dev environment auto compilation is used to avoid recompilation. Also it is very much needed to speed up the development time...
It was indeed an amazing GR8Conf IN 2016 with more than 200 participants, marvelous line-up of speakers and fully packed parallel sessions at The Lalit, New Delhi. This year the conference was sponsored by OCI, which is the new home for Grails. The entire conference was also live streamed by #fame with more than 4000 viewers across the...
Gradle Android Studio Introduction: Gradle is an automated build toolkit that can integrate into lots of different environments, via plugins. Minimize Configuration Required for New Projects: Gradle has a set of default configuration settings that are automatically applied to every project you create in Android Studio. If...
Building compressed files of Springboot application is a tedious task and its continuous deployment using Jenkins is even more so. To simplify the above predicament, a new Gradle plugin in Jenkins has been used. So, our objective in this blog is to make use of the relation between Gradle and Springboot. Let us take it further. ...
Springboot support is provided by most of the build tools e.g. Gradle and Maven. Though grails 3.x comes with Springboot and gradle integration, there might come scenarios where you just want to create a very small and simple build that does specific task e.g. a build that will just run some threads and trigger some rabbitmq messages. Now...
Recently, I was working on a micro-service using Ratpack framework. I wanted to deploy it to Heroku. I had tried to find good documentation for deploying on Heroku but couldn't find as such. After much trial and error, I finally managed to get a working configuration for successful deployment. As Heroku has very good support for...