If I had the best price for the keynote of the year award, I'd give the award to Christian Heilmann. His lecture was for me one of the highlights of this year Jax (Conference on Java, Architecture, Cloud & Agile).
HTML5 - The Web and the browser as a platform from JAX TV on Vimeo .
It should be also pointed to the many other very interesting presentations, due in part to the JAX TV channel published by Vimeo
Java is the Cobol of the 21st Century.
Tim Pritlove in mobilemacs Episode 76
This year's Jax (Conference for Java) has been a good 2 weeks past. Part of the lectures was videotaped and is now gradually with JAX TV channel available on Vimeo.
As always, were very interesting presentations from all topic areas below. For each Java flavor so there should be something.
I have neglected in recent times the topic Grails in this blog a bit. So it is now after this dry spell at the time, again to write a blog entry on this subject (may result in more).
One of my first article on Grails showed how to make Grails and Eclipse together. This entry was so successful that I did as a permanent site was built as part of a small tutorial on the blog.
This is a couple of months ago and support the creation of Grails applications with Eclipse has become steadily better.
Was it the beginning so that by far the best IDE for Grails was IDEA, the free Eclipse gets more and more. No later than the change of Grails developers to SpringSource and the associated integration into the Eclipse-based SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) , a lot has happened.
Aside from the main memory - Hunger of STS, I feel as old Eclipse users in good hands. With NetBeans and IDEA I could never really get used.
To enable Grails to support the Grails and Groovy on the Extensions tab extensions of the STS dashboards are installed (see screenshot). Then there are for Grails projects its own perspective, with syntax highlighting, code completion and a clear navigation in the Project Explorer.
In the toolbar there is a button in the Grails perspective 
Grails commands to execute (such as run-app ).
springsource / ~> Ls spring / source grails-1.3.5 grails-1.3.6 grails-1.3.7 maven-2.2.1.RELEASE roo-1.1.0.RELEASE tc-server-devel-2.0.4.RELEASE sts-2.5.0.RELEASE
Are there any updates (Help -> check for updates), a new version of Grails there is this added. In the Preferences (Groovy -> Grails) you have to take the new version of the workspace. The Grails project is still the upgrade command is necessary.
Conclusion:
The Grails integration into Eclipse has taken a big step forward. From IDEA functionality should still lead. Grails projects there are only supported in the paid version ULTIMATE.
The free development environment NetBeans and Eclipse-based STS hardly differ in the Grails support. Here the personal preference will decide on the IDE.
So, after the weekly links have failed in the past week, there are a few of them today.
