In my last post, I described how you can use resources.groovy to create and initialize a class. However, you can get into trouble if the initMethod will access any of the dynamic methods that Grails introduces. If you are not careful, you may get an Exception like the following:
groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static Thing.count() is applicable ...
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I was working on a Grails 1.1 project where I wanted to create and initialize an object using Spring. This class would access a Grails service and would interface with open source libraries. This post shows how to create a Java object that is initialized using Spring with various properties, including wiring in a Grails service class.
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From time to time, I need to find out what the TCP/IP address is for a particular computer. Sometimes it is one that I’m sitting in front of, but sometimes it is a remote machine that I’m connected to via telnet or ssh. I know there are a lot of web sites where you can find out your TCP/IP address, but I’ve created another. I’ll get to why in a moment. If you want to see what your TCP/IP address is without a bunch of advertisements or other clutter try this page: http://www.comitservices.com/ip.php. The results are simply your TCP/IP address; no more, no less.
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