Hi all, This is the first time I'm posting about Gaelyk in this group, I hope it's okay according to the netiquette of the Group. If not, please advise me the best place to give some news on that topic, on an occasional basis.
I wanted to share with you the r*elease of Gaelyk 0.3.2, a lightweight Groovy toolkit for App Engine*. Gaelyk is a thin layer on top of the Google App Engine SDK, that is aimed at simplifying the creation of applications written in the *G**roovy dynamic language* to be deployed on GAE. Thanks to Groovlets (servlet scripts basically) and templates, and entities, you can follow an *MVC paradigm* for creating your applications. Several nice *syntax shortcuts simplify the usage of the low-level SDK APIs*, such as an email.send to: "recipi...@gmail.com" shorthand and more. This new release adds some handy *URL routing system* to have nice RESTful URLs. If you want to learn more about this little framework, please have a look at the extensive Tutorial: http://gaelyk.appspot.com/tutorial Gaelyk was also presented recently at the Devoxx conference in Belgium, along with Patrick Chanezon descripting the GAE platform. You can view the slides of the presentation here: http://glaforge.free.fr/blog/groovy/286 You can download Gaelyk and a template project in the download section of the website: http://gaelyk.appspot.com/download And get involve in the community: http://gaelyk.appspot.com/community Particularly, you can join the Gaelyk Google Group for posting questions and chatting with the users and developers: http://groups.google.com/group/gaelyk Gaelyk is an *Open Source project* licensed under the terms of the *Apache Software License 2.0*. The project is hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/glaforge/gaelyk A number of applications online already use this lightweight toolkit. - For example, the Groovy Web Console lets you execute and share Groovy scripts online: http://groovyconsole.appspot.com/ - The Gaelyk website itself is of course a Gaelyk application: http://gaelyk.appspot.com/ - The iUI iPhone JavaScript toolkit website is also powered by Gaelyk: http://iui-js.appspot.com/ (best viewed with an iPhone) - The Averone's company website is developed with Gaelyk: http://www.averone.com.br/ In the future, we're looking forward to simplifying other parts of the GAE SDK, for instance providing some nice DSLs (Domain-Specific Languages) to improve and enrich the low-level datastore APIs to further simplify querying the datastore, or to create a RESTful language on top of the URL Fetch service to interact with REST backends. We're looking forward to your feedback and having you on board! -- Guillaume Laforge Groovy Project Manager Head of Groovy Development at SpringSource http://www.springsource.com/g2one -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
