I’m working on the chapter on Messaging and Scheduling for San Gria (Chapter 14), and I’ve finally had a chance to explore some parts of the sensational Grails Quartz plugin that have been on my to-do list for ages. I’ve had a good explore of non-re-entrant jobs, passing state between jobs, programmatically dealing with jobs, and now I’m having a look at the db-persistent jobs. One thing that I’ve wanted to explore for the longest [...]

For those of you wondering how Grails in Action is progressing, the answer is… great! I’ve been sick for the last month with pneumonia which, as you can imagine, has slowed things down a little my end . The good news is that we’re on track for a 2/3 review next month which should see a whole bunch of new chapters out in the wild. I’ve finished the one on messaging and scheduling, Peter has [...]