decrease memory footprint of grails application

create war using grails war --nojar

copy shared jars into tomcat lib dir

JavaFX on ubuntu linux

JavaFX gets a lot of bad rap, but this is mainly due to the difficulty of getting Java plugin working properly on firefox. Once the java firefox plugin is installed properly JavaFX works well. The load time is quick as well. It can be a Flash competitor if only the java browser plugin installation was easier.

I prefer downloading the JDK directly from SUN instead of using apt-get. Once the JDK is installed, all thats needed is to create a symlink.

I install my jdk in /usr/local/jdk

ln -s /usr/local/jdk/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

Restart firefox and