Library for Groovy that provides no-frills SOAP and REST webservice clients.

No huge depencency list. Quite appealing.

From the front page:

@Grab(group='com.github.groovy-wslite', module='groovy-wslite', version='0.1')
import wslite.soap.*

def soapClient = new SOAPClient("http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx")
def response = soapClient.send {
    version SOAPVersion.V1_2
    body {
        GetWeatherByZipCode(xmlns:"http://www.webservicex.net") {
            ZipCode("93657")
        }
    }
}

assert "SANGER" == response.GetWeatherByZipCodeResponse.GetWeatherByZipCodeResult.PlaceName.text()
assert 200 == response.http.statusCode
assert "OK" == response.http.statusMessage
assert "ASP.NET" == response.http.headers["X-Powered-By"]

Looks good. The Groovy/Grails webservices stack has been in need of a bit of love for a while, so it will be interesting to see how this develops.

Its probably worth keeping an eye on the topic at Nabble.

When I think about everything I went through with OSB to do much the same actual work…

So I don’t let this little nugget slip through the mesh:

A Pattern to Simplify Grails Controllers

As John Fletcher says on the Grails mailing list, this ‘creates one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” moments. Definitely should be abstracted into a plugin if not core.’

Nabble has the full discussion thread.