Articles tagged groovy
Get Groovy with Gradle
In the Java world, there are two main build systems: Gradle and Maven. A build system chiefly manages potentially complex webs of dependencies and compiles the project. It also packages the compiled project along with all the resources and meta files into the final .war or .jar file. For simple builds, the choice between Maven and Gradle is pretty much one of personal taste, or perhaps the taste of your CTO or technical manager. They...
Make Java Tests Groovy With Hamcrest
My favorite way to test Java code is with Groovy. Specifically, writing tests in Groovy with Hamcrest. In this post, I’ll walk through how to test a simple Spring Boot application with these tools. Groovy is an optionally typed dynamic language for the JVM, and can be compiled statically. That is a mouthful and I’ll explain this as we go, but for now think of Groovy as Java with lots of sugar. Groovy is a...
Build a Basic CRUD Application with Grails and Okta
Grails and Groovy can be a great alternative to Spring Boot, in some specific use cases. In this post, we’ll start with that basic Grails app that already has secure authentication via Okta, and add some additional features. In this tutorial you will: Define a simple data model Create domain classes for the models Create the necessary controllers and views Configure logging Configure the database so that the data is persisted between sessions Add some...
Build Server Side Authentication in Grails with OAuth 2.0 and Okta
What is Grails, what is Groovy, and why would we choose them over Spring Boot? In this post I’ll walk you through implementing server-side authentication in Grails using OAuth 2.0 and Okta. Before we dive in, however, I want to talk a little bit about why you’d be using Grails + Groovy in the first place, and how it can make your life easier in specific situations. Grails is an open source “convention over configuration”...