Have you had that feeling that you have to write too much code to build simple functionality? Some things just feel repetitive, they feel you should be not have to write them yourself, instead a framework should make your life easier. Recently I’ve been building a project in Java/Spring, and after some time I started wondering […]
The Spock Framework
In one of my current projects, I started to play around with Groovy and was fascinated how groovy this language is. I got more curious about the way to perform testing and started googling around a little bit. My google research showed me several frameworks to test groovy applications. One of these frameworks is the […]
Gather content for Lucene from WordPress using Groovy
I am learning about the capabilities of Lucene. Here at JTeam we have a few people that are specialized in Search using technology like Lucene and Solr. Therefore I want to have a higher level of knowledge of Lucene than I have now. So I started reading the Lucene in Action book. As I read […]
Cleaning up your maven repository
A few days a go I was looking at a warning that my disk was getting to full. I just upgraded to apple osx lion. There were a few things that were related to the upgrade, but another large directory was the maven repository directory. The easy way out is to just remove everything, but […]
Monitoring Hippo Connection pool using JMX and Groovy
For a project we are using Hippo to manage our content. We have a few components that interact with the repository using the connection pool as provided by hippo. I have modified the connection pool to increase the amount of logs and I have added statistics to the pool which can be exposed using JMX. […]
Shebang! Birth of a Groovy script
For a few days I have been browsing through Groovy in Action and wanted to give Groovy a try. So what should I code? I was busy with other stuff and while I was setting up a wicket project at home I wondered….what was the mvn wicket-quickstart syntax again?! I could have just pasted the […]