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This is just a very short and simple example of how to build a jmeter plugin. Jmeter is awesome and allows you to extend it by adding all sorts of components. What i wanted to do was to have separate test plans and reuse the configuration variable sets. My use case is that i want to have set of global settings with ability to override some of them with additional config files.
Grails in action is an excellent book for all grails and groovy developers. It covers all main aspects of grails development and even more. In the same time it does all that within 450 pages. I liked reading the book as its written in a nice and easy English, good style and clear explanations. As other 'in action' books it does set high standard of both language and the content.
For some reason my Spring Tool Suite has a problem with grails clean target. Most of the time running clean script removes 'target/classes' folder after which i am getting errors like:
Error automatically restarting container: destination directory "/workspace/target/classes" does not exist or is not a directory
To get rid of the issue edit the file:
/grails-1.2.1/scripts/_GrailsClean.groovy
and add mkdir command at the end of cleanCompiledSources target
I have worked with Grails lately and i have to say it seems like it may be the technology i was looking for! I am a skeptic by nature but I am getting more and more excited about Grails. It is really a cool and deeply thought out framework for all web development needs.
Why is Grails better than Rails?
Some might say that jruby will let you do the same thing and keep it old school (ruby not groovy). To be honest, i don't like Ruby as a language that much. I have read some articles/books (just a few) and i have read some code as well. I must say it seems to me more like perl than Java. Maybe its just matter of personal taste but ruby seems little bit messy to me.
I have to admit that i did not really want to get into another language this year. Its so much effort and usually so little gain of it. But what can you do sometimes you have to ;-).
While evaluating web platform alternatives we began with JSF2/JSTL/JSP/Struts. None of them seemed suitable for our needs. None of them seemed usable either. We began to look around for much more lightweight frameworks and thats when we started looking at Grails and Spring MVC.
