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Easy Database Manipulation with Groovy and Gradle

December 22, 2025February 15, 2016 by Steve Perkins

Taking a renewed look at Groovy, the under-hyped yet ubiquitous JVM based language, and how it makes database scripting easy.

Categories Programming Tags Continuous Integration, Gradle, Groovy, Java, JetBrains, Ruby, Scala

WAR files vs. Java apps with embedded servers

December 22, 2025March 11, 2013 by Steve Perkins
Embedded Java Server

When should you deploy a Java app to the server as a traditional WAR file, and when should you use an embedded server in the application itself? […]

Categories Infrastructure, Programming Tags Ant, App Servers, AppFog, Groovy, Heroku, hybris, Java, Maven, Python, Ruby, Scala

INI files for easy multi-environment config in Java

December 22, 2025March 3, 2013 by Steve Perkins
INI file screenshot

When your app is too small for a DI framework, yet has too much config for environment variables, this old-school gem really hits a sweet spot in between. […]

Categories Programming Tags Groovy, Java, Scala

Injecting JavaScript into Ant builds

December 22, 2025February 18, 2013 by Steve Perkins
Ant

How to use free-form JavaScript code to add more power and flexibility to Ant builds, with no extra dependencies! […]

Categories Programming Tags Ant, Eclipse, Groovy, hybris, Java, JavaScript, Maven

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