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groovy.lang.MetaClass is an interface, and JAXB can’t handle interfaces
Nope. Sure can’t. And that sucks. But how do I get my Grails domain objects to pass over web services.
I’m SOOOO happy I finally figured this out. It made our web services almost unreadable and unusable.
Anyway, if you are struggling with [...]

This is a continuation of my previous post “Publishing and Consuming Webservices with Grails“.
Lets suppose you already have experience in your favorite Authentication provider and want to ensure that your webservices use the same users and authentication engine.  For my purposes, Acegi (Spring Security) is that engine.  I’m going to assume we’ll start from where [...]

We’ve been working on a middle layer application that needs to translate a generic API to a proprietary API which uses our business logic to drive our local hardware.  The hardest part has been developing the webservices on an MVC framework.  Grails isn’t designed to natively consume or publish web services, but of course, there [...]

Sunday night completed the most miserable week of my life.  But it was also the best week of my life.  I gained some valuable skills, 19 life-long friends, and a renewed faith in my fraternity.

These guys are amazing. Even better than they sound, and they are really easy to make. First, make guacamole by mixing 2 parts mashed avocado, 1 part diced onion, and 1 part diced roma tomato. (Normally, I use 4 avocados, 1 onion the size of a tennis ball, and 2 tomatoes) [...]

My brother had his wedding this week and I was the best man.  Of course, the thing that made me most nervous was the toast I was to offer the newly weds.  After all, this was the first wedding I’ve been to since my mom’s nearly six years ago, and I can barely remember that.  [...]

I wanted to integrate Google Calendar into our project to allow our users to sync the appointments they make in our system with their Google Calendar.  Doing this will allow us to focus on creating the core of our site while allowing Google to make our more useful to our users.
The biggest obstacle in connecting [...]

Nick just told me he is going to start blogging recipes for the food he makes.  I thought that would be a great way for me to get started with my own blogging.  After all, a fat kid always loves food.
Last night I made a recipe I first made in my high school foods class.  [...]

I, again, am hoping to start blogging.  I still don’t think anything I have to say will help any one, but maybe will help me focus my ideas.