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I set out to explore some of the Atlassian API’s this week, along with a test drive of Jira 4, and ended up developing a simple XML-RPC plugin for Grails. Utilizing little more than the Groovy XMLRPC library I was able to implement a client service for the Jira XmlRpcService in minutes. Nothing terribly complicated […]

Lately I’ve been thinking about all the different ways to bring Groovy into a pure Java or command line environment, and ended up diving into some code to explore the various options. Turns out there’s definitely a good variety of options for running Groovy dynamically inside and out of a Java application. I started out […]

I had a great chance to play with some new stuff this weekend, namely Grails 1.2-M3, the new Grails REST plugin and Groovy in general. Awhile back I wrote some Groovy code to explore the various Jira, Fisheye and Crucible REST api’s using Apache HttpClient directly, and I wanted to see what it would like […]

Sorting a Map by value with Groovy is very simple, due to the added ‘sort’ method on the Map interface. [groovy language=”language="true”] def map = [a:3, b:2, c:1] map = map.sort {it.value} assert map == [c:1, b:2, a:3] [/groovy] Turns out doing a reverse sort on a Map by values is almost as easy. [groovy […]

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