Continuous Development Blog

Software development is one of the mysterious processes for the people who know little or  nothing about the process.

But when talking about the quality, it is not the colors or the make up of the screens you should be talking. (I am not under estimating how important it is, but I am talking about machine not the color of the box).

there are lots of people there talking about their AMAZING success stories.

I proudly present the ultimate tool that would change your life

I am sure they have done amazing performance numbers with help some hardware and some good practices. They are really happy to create the little mountains (Turkish idiom).  Let’s ask them: Read more

Grails has amazing plugin infrastructure. In short it enables almost everything the core application can do and has really good  list of plugins: http://grails.org/Plugins

Here what I want to say is something a little bit different:

Do all your business in your application plugin

Reminder: Plugins are enabled in Grails

You can reuse all implementation in your plugins:

• Model Object
• Services
• Controllers
• Gsp pages

Plugins can define their plugin dependency, just like maven dependency.

Goal: Extreme Modularity

Model all your business in a single plugin.

You can consider grails an application container in this case which manages transactions and persistence, and ui and enable each plugin with all customization.  What you need to do is using config. groovy and ConfigurationHolder for configuration issues.

What grails will do is just starting up plugins and and the applications one by one and expose all services, domain class and controllers which will work fine.

It will increase your modularity and ease your integration issues. You can also run your plugins while your are developing them. This is the most amazing part of all the scenario. You do not need to enter pack-install cycle to test anything.

Tough Part: IDE

If you have already established something like this before with Java you would have setup your IDE for this kind of integration. But for grails there is not support as far as far as I know So be ready run some console commands:

cd mycore

grails package-plugin

cd ../myapp

grails install-plugin ../mycore/grails-mycore-plugin-0.1.zip

Reference Guide:

http://www.grails.org/The+Plug-in+Developers+Guide

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hi again,

yesterday when I was surfing some software blogs I have came across something that really hits me: The 12 Best Questions for Team Members. (nice blog).In fact the goal of the questions is “your team’s motivation” !!!

No one has ever asked me these nice questions for several years. maybe this is why I am unrest now. Read more