I’ve been playing around with Grails and a bit of GWT lately, and it sure is a lot of fun. I’ve made some applications that use Grails, GWT, and GoogleMaps (see: Find A Wii Fit), and thought I’d write a quick tutorial on how to do it - it can be a little tricky.
This application […]

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I couldn’t find any tutorials on how to use Amazon AWS with GroovyWS, so I took a few minutes to figure out how to do it. Here is some sample code:

import groovyx.net.ws.WSClient

def proxy = new WSClient(“http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/AWSECommerceService.wsdl?”, this.class.classLoader)

def req = proxy.create(“com.amazon.webservices.awsecommerceservice._2008_04_07.ItemSearchRequest”)

req.searchIndex = ‘Books’
req.keywords = “Groovy and Grails”

def search = proxy.create(“com.amazon.webservices.awsecommerceservice._2008_04_07.ItemSearch”)

search.AWSAccessKeyId = “your id here”
search.request.add(req)

def res = […]

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2008 is shaping up to be a great year for mobile development. Google released its Android platform late last year, and Apple has released an early version of its SDK for the iPhone just a few days ago. I’m not a full-time mobile developer, so I figure I’ll eventually have to settle on one […]

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It has been interesting to see the various reactions to Java 6 not being included with OS X Leopard. Several people on Javalobby advocated boycotting Apple over this. I  don’t think a boycott is in order - in fact, I just bought a brand new iMac, even knowing Java 6 wasn’t on it :) Other […]

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Last week, I sold my iMac in preparation for buying a new 24″ Core 2 Duo model when Leopard came out. Now it is out, sans Java 6. I’ve spent the last few hours looking at what people are saying on places like Javalobby, the JavaPosse Google Group, Apple’s Java mailing lists, etc.. A lot […]

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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of instability and memory issues in Eclipse (Europa) with WTP, both in my own use, from co-workers, and on IRC. Today, a friend sent me this link which appears to show the cause for at least some of these issues. It appears the latest release used:
–launcher.XXMaxPermSize256m
in the eclipse.ini to […]

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