RE: Another high profile Grails site goes live

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> From: Marc Palmer [mailto:marc@...]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 17:32
> To: user@...
> Subject: [grails-user] Another high profile Grails site goes live
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> Later than we hoped but let's say there were issues upstream of us :)
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> http://www.tropicana.co.uk/
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> The UK arm of the famous orange and related juices uses:
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> * Grails 0.4
> * StaticResourcesPlugin 0.2
> * ModelTagLib
> * I18NTagLib
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> Again its a very simple site in "Web developer" terms but there's a  
> bit of data collection smarts in there, plus some more things to  
> come. A fun bit was setting up wallpapers to download with their  
> content-disposition set so they download instead of display. I still  
> don't think I have this 100% right for all browsers, but it was done  
> just using Apache mod_headers which was a nice solution because  
> getting Tomcat to serve these large files would have been madness.
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> There's quite a bit of flash on the site, but none of it is served by  
> Tomcat and is hence not in the .WAR thanks to  
> StaticResourcesPlugin... which was totally broken until this morning  
> in production, sorry guys - unit tested well but then you find that  
> on a live box grails.env is not set at all...
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> Soon we will move all images to static serving and the site should be  
> even snappier.
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> There are some known issues (ugly chars in the country list!) and  
> some significant updates to come to both Copella and Tropicana sites  
> in the near term... and there are more sites to come in before the  
> summer! :)
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> Thanks again to all the grails devs for making this possible.  
> Tropicana was much less painful than, nay very enjoyable, compared to  
> Copella as 0.4 is such a landmark release for putting Grails sites  
> into live production.
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> Marc
> ~ ~ ~
> Marc Palmer (marc@...)
> Consultant/Analyst
> http://www.anyware.co.uk/
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> AnyWare Ltd.
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