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Great articles I know only the basic information o...

2011-10-20T01:08:43.567-04:00

Great articles I know only the basic information of domain object . You have described very clearly. Thanks for sharing.it helping more
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i am now using netbeans 6.9 for grails. But what i...

2010-09-17T01:03:59.191-04:00

i am now using netbeans 6.9 for grails. But what i found out that though netbeans is good but it is also slow mostly when it starts to scan for external changes. I cant wait that much for it to scan. Any work around for this problem. Is there any way to disable this external changes scanning? I am also interested to know what is this scanning for external changes is? Thank you.

thank you sir, this is a simple example and easy t...

2010-07-16T13:56:17.300-04:00

thank you sir, this is a simple example and easy to understand for a newbie like me :)

2010-02-22T16:22:33.736-05:00

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Hi Travis, Works fine for simple stuff. In the pa...

2009-04-23T13:02:00.000-04:00

Hi Travis,

Works fine for simple stuff. In the past i've used CastorXML to good effect when it gets more complicated...but maybe it's not ever going to get that complicated?....

Regards,
Jez

I'm a little late to the party with this post, but...

2009-04-22T10:47:00.000-04:00

I'm a little late to the party with this post, but this is great information Travis. It would also be interesting to compare different serialization strategies.

For example, in our current project, we are using XStream exclusively and extensively to provide object serialization to and from XML. The library to provide this serialization can be found at http://xstream.codehaus.org

For example:

Serialization:
XStream xstream = new XStream();
String xml = xstream.toXML(object);

De-serialization:
XStream xstream = new XStream();
Object object = xstream.fromXML(string);

That is the most basic example of how to use XStream, but shows how easy this library is to use.

John,
Thanks so much for the great feedback! ...

2009-03-25T13:32:00.000-04:00

John,
Thanks so much for the great feedback! I'll look into your suggestions to learn a bit more about the Buildable interface.

Hi Travis!

Nice example. Just a couple of c...

2009-03-25T07:32:00.000-04:00

Hi Travis!

Nice example. Just a couple of comments which might make the process a little simpler.

Do you know about the Buildable interface?

This is analogous to the Writeable interface, if an object implements Buildable it tells StreamingMarkupBuilder that it knows how to write itself out as XML. The Buildable interface has a single method "void build(GroovyObject builder)". When you give such an object to StreamingMarkupBuilder it calls build passing the "magic' builder object as a parameter. Typically, if the Buildable object is written in Groovy, the build method executes a closure with builder as its delegate and the closure just uses the normal StreamingMarkupBuilder mechanisms to serialise the object.

So you would just do out << cust in your example and your build() implementation would just execute your address closure with the delegate set to builder.

One other small point:

You use unescaped to generate the XML header and you explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8. This is not best practice. StreamingMarkupBuilder provides the mkp.xmlDeclaration() method which "snifs" the Writer to determine the actual encoding being used and puts the right encoding in the header. It's lots safer to use this method

Bets Wishes

John

Netbeans has the best Maven integration i ever see...

2009-03-24T14:25:00.000-04:00

Netbeans has the best Maven integration i ever seen. I convinced my company to use maven for builds instead of ANT, and now i am also able to develop in Netbeans thanks to maven Integration. I had to introduce maven to eclipse, ohh boy what junk. All Eclipse plugins do not treat maven as first class citizen therefore always something goes wrong. While Netbeans understands and work on top of the pom definition. Now that's unbeatable, like no other.

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2009-03-20T03:55:00.000-04:00

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Regards
Kris

I updated the post to include a couple of new exam...

2009-03-16T22:51:00.000-04:00

I updated the post to include a couple of new examples. If this doesn't help, feel free to drop me an email (send me the xml you're trying to process).

Handy, thanks ... one question, how would you use ...

2009-03-16T18:30:00.000-04:00

Handy, thanks ... one question, how would you use XmlSlurper inside a Grails app to pull in an element named 'id' ? (as in an atom feed, where there is an atom : id element)

'node.id' works in groovysh, but not in a Grails app; I am suspecting the issue is the inject special behaviour Grails has around the id property.

Eclipse was my starter IDE, however its obvious to...

2009-03-14T05:58:00.000-04:00

Eclipse was my starter IDE, however its obvious to anyone who has used it for any length Netbeans which is the superior IDE; I am no guru but I can tell when one platform clearly outperforms another.

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's helpful ...

2009-03-06T17:25:00.000-05:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's helpful for me to see how you feel NetBeans is working for you in a day to day working environment.

Netbeans is feature rich and does work right out o...

2009-03-05T19:36:00.000-05:00

Netbeans is feature rich and does work right out of the box, but it is still significantly slower than Eclipse for general run of the mill Java development. Try a rename refactoring on a variable and then again immediately after on a different variable.. BIG DELAY as you wait for it to re-scan your projects from the first (already complete) rename. Then there are a few irritating glitches that they can't seem to shake - like totally bogus error markers (class not found for generated classes from an imported web service - the project compiles fine, but the IDE shows errors). I use NetBeans now for my day to day work but most others in my org use Eclipse. Netbeans needs to improve speed and quality for plain old java development to be as productive as Eclipse in that area. For GUI, and other things NetBeans is better... for easy setup and "works out of the box" Netbeans is better.

Building a Grails Pet Catalog using Netbeans 6.5 a...

2009-03-03T12:23:00.000-05:00

Building a Grails Pet Catalog using Netbeans 6.5 and MySQL
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2009/02/building_a_grai_1.html

Sample Catalog Application using using JRuby and Rails
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2007/10/sample_catalog.html

Netbeans is simply the best!
I'm encountering t...

2009-03-02T22:37:00.000-05:00

Netbeans is simply the best!
I'm encountering too many problems even installing Eclipse-Ganymede on Linux-Ubuntu - different behavior 0n the 32 and 64 bit versions, conflicts with Firefox - xulrunner etc. None of this problems ever encountered with any version of Netbeans!

I think it's an excellent tool for working with so...

2009-03-02T13:27:00.000-05:00

I think it's an excellent tool for working with some of the newer frameworks/languages out there. I'm still getting up to speed with hot keys and basic ide features but I've been very satisifed thus far. I think that I like it better than eclipse for the same reasons I prefer to use my Mac over my Windows based Dell. It just seems to work right out of the box. Don't take my word for it though. Give it a try to see if it's a good fit for you.

is it that good ?
I have newest Netbeans instal...

2009-03-01T20:02:00.000-05:00

is it that good ?
I have newest Netbeans installed on my laptop but never use it .. haha ... i might try it :)

I am using vim at the moment, for doing my job in groovy, grails, php, html css etc ... :D

Fortunately I have the flexibility to choose the I...

2009-02-28T11:56:00.000-05:00

Fortunately I have the flexibility to choose the IDE at work. Many people have not this flexibility and are forced to use Eclipse because their whole development team is using Eclipse. In fact all of my colleagues are using Eclipse but I am sure this number will decrease after they see, how well dynamic Web Projects are integrated in NetBeans: The hot-deploy functionality is 5x as fast as in Eclipse... - to mention only one significant advantage...

and yes, I know, who would want to create one in t...

2009-02-25T01:38:00.000-05:00

and yes, I know, who would want to create one in the first place. ;)

just don't try and delete a 2.1 Entity EJB. It wil...

2009-02-25T01:14:00.000-05:00

just don't try and delete a 2.1 Entity EJB. It will remove the smile from your face, I promise...

Great. I made the switch to NetBeans from Intellij...

2009-02-24T23:28:00.000-05:00

Great. I made the switch to NetBeans from Intellij IDEA when NetBeans 5.0 was released. Didn't look back to any other IDE anymore. NetBeans works wonderfully well for my needs.

James
http://jamesselvakumar.wordpress.com

For sure you go with netbeans for Scala, as of _no...

2009-02-23T11:08:00.000-05:00

For sure you go with netbeans for Scala, as of _now_ the scala plugin for netbeans is simply better/stable.