Just now I installed the Grails AXIS2 plug-in to expose some logic via web-services. Setup was easy and I had it all running in no time. But now to test it. All I could find was a WS-Client but this is only compatible with Grails 1.2 or higher.

In Grails you have the Export plugin. One of the formats you can export to is Excel. So far this worked fine for me... The project I'm working on now requires a bit more then exporting it to Excel. I now want to write but also read Excel documents. After reading some threads on the Internet and reading a Blog entry by Ken Kousen

I'm currently reading a book about Groovy. It's a great book when starting with writing Groovy scripts. It start with the basics of groovy and has a lot of examples. I especially like the comparisons between the Groovy code and the Java code. Often the required lines of Groovy code is less than 20% of the amount of Java lines of code. All without loosing quality or functionality.

If you have a good book about Groovy of Grails please let me know by posting a comment.

After not using my site for some time now I installed Drupal, a CMS, to start over. I used to work with Wordpress a lot but at this moment I think Drupal offers me more flexibility.

I will post news about PHP development, my experience with Grails/Groovy and software development in general.