Thursday, October 29, 2009

(Too many) Cool Grails plugins

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  • PDF: Generate PDFs and send them to the browser by converting existing pages in your application to PDF on the fly; if processing fails HTML is returned in it's stead.
  • Searchable: Brings rich search features to Grails applications with minimum effort, and gives you power and flexibility when you need it
  • LiquiBase Database Refactoring: LiquiBase is a database change tracking tool. Major functionality includes:
    • 34 Refactorings
    • Extensibility to create custom refactorings
    • update database to current version
    • rollback last X changes to database
    • rollback database changes to particular date/time
    • rollback database to "tag"
    • Stand-alone IDE and Eclipse plug-in
    • "Contexts" for including/excluding change sets to execute
    • Database diff report
    • Database diff changelog generation
    • Ability to create changelog to generate an existing database
    • Database change documentation generation
    • Ability to save SQL to be applied for approval by a DBA
    • DBMS Check, user check, and SQL check preconditions
    • Can split change log into multiple files for easier management
    • Support for 10 database systems
  • JMS: Allows you to expose services and/or particular service methods as JMS listeners. It also provides a service and convenience methods on controllers and services for sending messages.
  • Mondrian is an open source Relational OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) engine that enables self-service analysis and reporting for users. Data is retrieved from a generic star-schema database so that any variable can be compared by any variable.

  • LifeRay: inherits Portlets Plugin, and adds Liferay Portal specific configurations and adapters.

  • JasperGrails: JasperReports on Grails; PDFs and charts too!

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