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Configure servlets in Grails application.
30 Sep, 13

Configure servlets in Grails application.

by | Sep 30, 2013 | Grails | Last updated at July 29, 2020

Recently, I had to configure jolokia in my grails application. Jolokia is a JMX-HTTP bridge giving an alternative to JSR-160 connectors. Grails doesn’t provide web.xml directly to configure but you can do it by installing the templates. Just issue the following...
jQuery Select2 with ajax in grails
27 Sep, 13

jQuery Select2 with ajax in grails

by | Sep 27, 2013 | Grails, GSP, HTML/CSS, jQuery | Last updated at July 9, 2020

jQuery Select2 is an awesome jQuery plugin. It provides very interactive UI for select drop downs. Select2 comes with AJAX support built in. Instead of giving list to select you can make ajax request and get dynamic data. Following are the steps to get the dynamic...
Integrate jasper report with grails
25 Sep, 13

Integrate jasper report with grails

by | Sep 25, 2013 | Grails | Last updated at July 29, 2020

I used Jasper report for the first time in my Grails project and i faced many issues. I am sharing some tips with you which will help you to solve common problems. 1. Use jasper plugin. Go to this link and add jasper plugin in your BuildConfig.groovy like this....
Everyday JS : Part 3 – A Simple HTTP Server
24 Sep, 13

Everyday JS : Part 3 – A Simple HTTP Server

by | Sep 24, 2013 | Node.js | Last updated at July 9, 2020

Part 1: Introduction to NodeJS Part 2: NPM and modules in NodeJS This will be a very long post, so I’m dividing it further to make it easier. ExpressJS is a great utility for Node, it can be precisely defined in its own words ” a minimal and flexible...
Grails 2.3.0 Redirects In URL Mappings
24 Sep, 13

Grails 2.3.0 Redirects In URL Mappings

by | Sep 24, 2013 | Grails, Grails 2.3.0 | Last updated at July 24, 2020

Prior to Grails 2.3.0 redirects were not supported in URL Mappings and the available solutions were not DRY. There have been various discussions on stackoverflow, Mailing List , Jira and on the blogs to add redirect in URLMapping.groovy. Grails team has finally added...
Read file in Grails service
23 Sep, 13

Read file in Grails service

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Grails | Last updated at July 29, 2020

Whenever I required to put  file in Application and read content from that file I create a directory e.g. resources in the web-app directory and read content in service like: [php]import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.ServletContextHolder as SCH class...
Parse Date in Java using a list of formats.
23 Sep, 13

Parse Date in Java using a list of formats.

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Java | Last updated at July 23, 2020

In extension to the parse-date-in-grails-2-x-x-regardless-format We’ll parse date from a list of available formats to java.util.Date using apache’s commons lang library. This can be used in the service layer like: [php]String[] datesFormats = new...
Capture login event in grails
23 Sep, 13

Capture login event in grails

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Grails, Groovy | Last updated at July 21, 2020

There are several use cases where we are require to capture the login event such as storing the login history, set user related data like name and email in session(so that no database hit to get this basic information), etc. In my project I asked to maintain user...
Play MP3 files in Java using JLayer
23 Sep, 13

Play MP3 files in Java using JLayer

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Java, Maven | Last updated at July 13, 2020

Recently, I was trying some media API and found the JDK 1.6 doesn’t play MP3 files out of the box. So, I searched a little and found JLayer that can play mp3 format, you only have to include its jar file. Other than JLayer there’s Java Media Framework...
Convert string params to list
23 Sep, 13

Convert string params to list

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Grails | Last updated at July 29, 2020

Grails 2.x added a new method in params object “list”. This method is used in case you are not sure weather you got a string(single request parameters of a name) or a list(multiple request parameters of the same name) in params. This method always return a...
Create Java project with Maven from terminal.
23 Sep, 13

Create Java project with Maven from terminal.

by | Sep 23, 2013 | Java, Maven | Last updated at July 13, 2020

Install maven on your system and run the following command: mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.jft.prashant -DartifactId=MavenSample -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false This will generate the required directory structure with...
reCAPTCHA: the human element of digitization
17 Sep, 13

reCAPTCHA: the human element of digitization

by | Sep 17, 2013 | HTML/CSS | Last updated at July 14, 2020

Most of us stumble upon different Spam-protection techniques, while there are few which are relatively very easy, there are also some wicked one which ask you to solve proper calculus problems ! Spam protection techniques are aptly very common in our day to day usage,...