Hi all,

I'm very happy to announce the *final release of Gaelyk 1.0*, the
lightweight Groovy <http://groovy.codehaus.org> toolkit for Google App
Engine!

It took some time to get to 1.0, but it's now here, with the key feature
I've been missing since the beginning of the project, in particular the
Query DSL which allows you to write queries like this one:

def latestArticles = datastore.execute {
select all from articles
sort desc by dateCreated
where author == params.author
limit 10

If you want to learn more about this lightweight framework, head over to:
http://gaelyk.appspot.com/

You can learn everything through the tutorial:
http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial

And download the JAR or the template project here:
http://gaelyk.appspot.com/download

Should you want to ask questions on the Google
Groups<http://groups.google.com/group/gaelyk>,
get involved in the community, participate in the development of this Open
Source project <https://github.com/glaforge/gaelyk>, have a look at our
community page:
http://gaelyk.appspot.com/community

This release wouldn't have been possible with all the great contributions of
you all, your pull requests on GitHub <https://github.com/glaforge/gaelyk>,
your Gradle plugins, your bug
reports<https://github.com/glaforge/gaelyk/issues?sort=created&direction=desc...>,
your questions on the Google Group, etc. So I'd like to tell you all a big
thank you for all your work and contributions. They were very much
appreciated, and keep them coming!

The change log:

   - GAE SDK updated to 1.5.2 and Groovy to 1.8.1
   - Introduction of a Query DSL for creating SQL-like queries against the
   datastore <http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/app-engine-shortcuts#query>
   - Updated template
project<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/template-project> with
   a Gradle build, the usage of Gradle GAE / Gaelyk plugins, and the support of
   Spock for testing Groovlets
   - Introduction of the plugins page <http://gaelyk.appspot.com/plugins> in
   the Gaelyk website, for referencing known plugins
   - By annotating classes with GaelykBindings, the same services and
   variables are injected in your classes as
properties<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/views-and-controllers#gaelykBindings>,
   as the ones which are injected in Groovlets and templates
   - The validation
closures<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/url-routing#path-variable-validation>
of
   the routes in your URL mapping have access to the request, so you can
   validate a URL depending on what's in your request (attribute, session,
   etc.)
   - Added a DSLD file (DSL descriptor) for Eclipse for easing
   code-completion and navigation
   - Added a get() method on
Key<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/app-engine-shortcuts#delete-get-on...>,
   as well as on lists of keys
   - Ability to convert lists to
Keys<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/app-engine-shortcuts#list-to-key-c...>
   - Added two encoded string and key
conversion<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/app-engine-shortcuts#key-string-co...>
    utilities
   - Additional datastore.get()
methods<http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial/app-engine-shortcuts#datastore-get>
to
   retrieve entities by their keys more concisely
   - Problems with the recent XMPP support fixed
   - Fixed inability to access the various services and variables from
   within binding/before/after blocks in plugin descriptors

Thanks a lot for your attention, and enjoy developing Groovy applications on
Google App Engine!

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

Twitter: @glaforge
Google+: http://gplus.to/glaforge

Congratulations Guillaume, and thanks for all the hard work!

awesome... congratulations. I had been waiting for this announcement for
long :)
Thanks Guillaume for all your hard work.

Great,
I will take the opportunity of the holidays to discover this framework.
Congratulations for your work!

In the template is it normal that the data insered is "bart" and the data
searched is "marco". The test fails if we don't modify it.
The 'dataStoreGroovlet.groovy' file seems to be missing too

Loic

Looks like I messed the template a bit :-)

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

Twitter: @glaforge
Google+: http://gplus.to/glaforge

I've restored the sample groovlet, and fixed the test, and pushed those
changes to GitHub, sorry for the inconvenience.
I'll certainly release a point release sometime soon, in case people find
some bugs, and the template will be fixed in there, but if you're impatient,
you can pick up the two files (the test and the groovlet) from GitHub.

Guillaume

--
Guillaume Laforge
Groovy Project Manager
Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource
http://www.springsource.com/g2one

Twitter: @glaforge
Google+: http://gplus.to/glaforge

Thanks a lot,
I'm just discovering Gaelik but I already love it.
I less than one day I am already able to deploy a mini blog engine on GAE.

It's really  simple, powerfull and elegant! I

Super, I'm just starting with Groovy and Gaelyk and was using Maven
for the build so far. I'll definitly switch to Gradle to learn it too.
I was also missing examples to the blog engine is very appreciated to
just read some code.
Thanks !

On Aug 7, 6:06 pm, Loic Descotte <loic.desco...@gmail.com> wrote:

A good example I used to start
: http://globalgateway.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/simple-crud-with-gaelyk/
(both post and comments are interesting)