Grails & Hudson / Jenkins Part 5: Monitoring build status

There are a number of ways you can monitor the progress of your Grails build: using the Hudson / Jenkins web app; or leveraging the API: from your IDE, bespoke API clients or even your enterprise monitoring client. We’ll look at all of them here and build a simple Grails taglib to display build status in the ‘Application Status’ panel.

Groovy as a SalesForce API client

We needed a quick way of performing data cleansing and bulk updates to data within SalesForce. As SalesForce is a hosted Software-as-a-Service offering it’s not as simple as resorting to SQL statements – or is it?
Using the Web Services API from Groovy made it quite easy once the foundations were in place.