Of note to those who follow

Some links to interesting/useful (to me, maybe you too) things:

• small and big icons
• simple-to-use, powerful security API for your JVM apps, web & desktop, with single-signon, role-based and object and per-instance capabilities; there's a Grails plugin too, here's a GSP tag in action (sorry about the formatting!) :

  • <jsec:hasRole in="['Administrator', 'Supervisor', 'User']">

  •         <span class="menuButton">                  

  •                 <g:link controller="user" action="list">Manage Users</g:link>                 

  •         </span>             

  • </jsec:hasRole>

• simple-to-use, powerful Swing GUI testing with Fest aka TestNG-Abbot
• build Swing(plain, X and SwingSet) apps declaratively w/Groovy's Griffon (here and here and here) and test 'em w/Fest
• using Groovy, JPA, TopLink and Java DB to persist a desktop application's UI state
• Groovy on Seam and Gracelets and Seam - a DSL for Facelets and Groovy with easy integration
• more Groovy stuff:
  • a demonstration of creating a (Swing) table binding dynamically and baking automatic sorting across multiple columns right into the (domain) model
  • scripting w/Groovy & bash to multiply developer productivity
• counting characters in Java wrt/Unicode
• Isomorphic SmartClient's MenuBar & MenuItem JS classes
• Grails plugins:
  • UI menus (YUI JS, beta)
  • RichUI
  • UI Performance (compression of JS & images w/Sprites & CSS)
  • Drilldowns
  • Navigator via CSS
  • Menus
  • HelpBallons (re-use message.properties file(s) to display field-level help)Grails UI for Integer Dates; avoid validation and formatting of the date value from your DB
  • webapp testing w/Selenium & Tellurium
  • eye-candy: iPhone-like checkboxen via jQuery

I'm currently researching how best we can build and re-use menus in Grails webapps that are derived from DB values pertaining to structure, functionality and per-user security roles.