Groovy

More Groovy Magic with Maven pom Files

Last time, I introduced some of the new Groovy support available in Maven 3, and looked at how you will be able to write your pom files in Groovy, or in other...

0 replies - 1753 views - 11/02/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

The True and False of Groovy's AST Builder

Last week saw three(!) conference sessions on Groovy AST Transformations.

0 replies - 1431 views - 10/26/09 by Hamlet D'Arcy in Articles

Writing Your pom Files in Groovy - a Sneek Preview of Maven 3's Polyglot Features

Maven 3 is promising to be the most significant upgrade since the release of Maven 2. While maintaining backward compatibility with existing Maven 2 projects,...

8 replies - 1717 views - 10/22/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

SpringOne 2GX Kicks Off with Spring 3.0 release

The release of the Spring 3.0 and a free developer edition of the SpringSource Tomcat Server will be announced today at the SpringOne 2GX conference.  The new...

1 replies - 3355 views - 10/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday.  Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader, has been...

12 replies - 6650 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Secret Agents helping your code handle concurrency

Among all the available options to safely and correctly manage shared state in concurrent programs, I've selected the concept of Agents for my today's post....

0 replies - 2317 views - 09/15/09 by vaclav in News

Interview: James Williams on Griffon

The Strange Loop conference is a unique software developer conference in St.

0 replies - 2728 views - 08/28/09 by Alex Miller in News

Groovy in the LAMP Stack

We’ve all thought about it. If you search hard enough you can even find a few simple examples of how you might accomplish this. I know Java has some really...

9 replies - 2704 views - 07/31/09 by David Lee in Articles

Book Giveaway: Grails In Action Exclusive Chapter Download

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Grails in Action' (by Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook). This chapter covers...

8 replies - 2448 views - 07/27/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Groovy in One Day

After JavaFX, now let's have a look at Groovy. Note that I already had a quick look at it when 1.0 has been released and I wrote one of the XINS Web Services...

7 replies - 7194 views - 05/25/09 by Anthony Goubard in Articles

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9160 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Targeted Languages

The vast majority of actively evolving business software is written in Java these days. Java has long enjoyed the title of One Language to Rule Them All....

6 replies - 3745 views - 12/17/08 by Jay Fields in Articles

Getting Groovy With "with"

Strange enough title.Let's start with a hypothetical conversation between a geeky developer and his much less geeky wife:

6 replies - 5385 views - 11/14/08 by Jeff Brown in News

Groovy, Grails & SpringSource - Initial Thoughts

SpringSource today announced that it has purchased G2One, the folks who have been driving the development of Groovy and Grails. The following are my _initial_...

11 replies - 4660 views - 11/12/08 by Pratik Patel in News

Groovy 1.5.7 and 1.6-beta2 released

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy development team and G2One announce the joint release of both Groovy 1.5.7 -- current stable and maintenance branch...

6 replies - 4850 views - 10/09/08 by Andres Almiray in News