2008-04-09: Grails Pet Store 0.2 released
The second milestone has been released. Highlights include:
- Upgraded to Grails 1.0.2, Searchable plugin 0.4, Feeds plugin 1.2
- Java Pet Store import completely from XML (images are base64-encoded)
- Address coordinate fetch from Yahoo (turned off in development mode), and Google Maps mashup in item detail view
- Hibernate second level cache (turned off in development mode)
- RSS feed with ten latest items
- Sorting and pagination for browsning by category/product, by tag and search now works correctly. All browsing method use the same view.
- First example of a taglib
- Captcha service now session-scoped
- Command object for handling creation and edit of new items
- Lots and lots of small improvments
Take a look at the roadmap to see what lies ahead. There will also be a live instance of the GPS available within a few weeks. The Howto has been updated, please leave a comment or raise an issue if you have any problems.
Note: there is no packaged download - use the "RELEASE_0_2" subversion tag.
2008-02-07: Welcome to the Grails Pet Store 0.1
This is the first milestone release of the Grails port of the famous Pet Store application.
Features so far:
- Persistent domain model with validation, closely modeled after the Java Pet Store 2.0
- Indexed search, using the Compass-backed Searchable plugin
- Import of the Java Pet Store database to/from XML
- Image handling (uploading, scaling, captcha generation etc)
- Pet catalog view with sorting and pagination, browse pets by category or product
- Browse by tag
- Edit and create pets
Future releases will have map mashups and of course a shopping cart functionality, as well as numerous small improvements throughout the application.
Track project progress here on Google Code, and keep an eye on this blog from time to time.
Grails Pet Store is purely a community project and has no relation to the G2One company.
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