GroovyFX brings together two of my favorite things: Groovy and JavaFX. The main GroovyFX Project page describes GroovyFX as "[providing] a Groovy binding for...
0 replies - 2210 views - 02/20/13 by Dustin Marx in Articles
Groovy 2.1 introduces a new annotation to group multiple annotations and define an alias for the group. The new @AnnotationCollector
annotation is an AST...
1 replies - 2481 views - 02/19/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
In Groovy we can add extra functionality to a class with so-called mixins. In the previous blog post
we added extra functionality to a class, but we can also...
0 replies - 2763 views - 02/14/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
A Bookmarklet to Switch Your Backgrounds at Will I'm giving this bookmarklet my 'tool of the week' honors. Not that I've really made a trend out...
0 replies - 4186 views - 02/05/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Groovy 2.0 brought us extension modules. An extension module is a JAR
file with classes that provide extra methods to existing other classes
like in the...
0 replies - 3803 views - 02/04/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Since Groovy 2.1 we have a couple of extra methods available for objects that implement the java.lang.Appendable interface. A lot of Writer objects implement...
0 replies - 3077 views - 02/01/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
Groovy 2.1 adds the method directorySize() to File objects. If the File
object is a directory then the total size of all files is calculated.
Notice this...
1 replies - 3487 views - 01/31/13 by Hubert Klein Ikkink in Articles
"Actuate BIRT’s (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool) proven technology allows software companies to innovate, leapfrog the competition and meet...
0 replies - 414 views - 01/22/13 by Kelley Gemma in Uncategorized
As reader's of my blog would know I am a bit of a Maven fanboy.
I had started using Maven around 2007-8 and have never looked back.
However, as is the...
2 replies - 8695 views - 01/18/13 by Partha Bhattacharjee in Articles
Groovy is a dynamic and object-oriented programming language running
on JVM. It uses a syntax like Java, can be embedded in Java and is
compiled to...
0 replies - 4508 views - 01/09/13 by Eren Avşaroğulları in Articles
Groovy has made fetching data from URL a snap:println(new URL("http://www.google.com").text)But have you ever try to get data from an https of an
site...
0 replies - 3412 views - 12/31/12 by Zemian Deng in Articles
It's a chao not to track bugs and feature requests when you developing
software. Having a simple issue tracker would make managing the project
much...
0 replies - 3491 views - 12/28/12 by Zemian Deng in Articles
One of the many features that makes Groovy an attractive scripting language is its built-in command-line argument support via CliBuilder. I have written about...
0 replies - 4098 views - 12/21/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles
Here are some simple steps to get you fully started with Quartz Scheduler on MySQL database using Groovy. The script below will allow you to quickly experiment...
0 replies - 6304 views - 12/21/12 by Zemian Deng in Articles
I have looked at some highly useful methods available in Groovy GDK's extensions to the Java JDK in blog posts such as Groovy JDK (GDK): File.deleteDir(),...
0 replies - 4235 views - 12/20/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles
