Some great work has come out of the plugins available for Grails. One of my favorite is the Active MQ (and JMS) plugins that allow grails (very easily) to integrate Java message. I have used these before, but then come up against an issue when upgrading my projects to Grails 1.2 M2. They stopped working!!! So...

For those of you that know me, you will know that I am a big fan of Grails and Groovy. This week we have had 2 huge announcements. Firstly that VMWare has acquired SpringSource (Groovy and Grails custodian), and then Grails 1.2 M2 got released yesterday. I downloaded 1.2 M2 last night and I am super...