Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for February 22nd through February 27th:

• InfoQ: What's New in Groovy 1.6 – As we shall see in this article, the main highlights of this Groovy 1.6 release are:

  * Greater compile-time and runtime performance improvements
  * Multiple assignments
  * Optional return in if/else and try/catch blocks
  * Java 5 annotation definition
  * AST transformations and all the provided transformation annotations like @Singleton, @Lazy, @Immutable, @Delegate and friends
  * The Grape module and dependency system and its @Grab transformation
  * Various Swing builder improvements, thanks to the Swing / Griffon team, as well as several Swing console improvements
  * The integration of JMX builder
  * Various metaprogramming improvements, like the EMC DSL, per-instance metaclasses even for POJOs, and runtime mixins
  * JSR-223 scripting engine built-in
  * Out-of-the-box OSGi readiness

• AribaWeb – More App, Way Less Code! – AribaWeb is the Open Source component-based web application development framework for creating rich, AJAX-enabled applications with the
  absolute minimum of code (and no hand-coded Javascript).
• RapidInsight Primer for Netcool Users – RapidInsight – Confluence – RapidInsight is a complete integration, automation and presentation solution for IT operations management. The capabilities provided by RapidInsight span through number of different products in Netcool suite such as Netcool® ObjectServer, Gateways, Probes, Impact, Webtop, Reporter, Portal, and TBSM.
  This document is an attempt to describe the capabilities provided by RapidInsight in terms that are familiar the users of Netcool suite of applications.

  RapidInsight offers a risk free, flexible upgrade path for Netcool users. RapidInsight can be used to:

  * complement your existing solution by addressing the most common pain points
  * replace parts of the solution to reduce complexity and administrative overhead
  * replace the entire solution