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Writing DSLs in Groovy

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Domain Specific Languages

In this presentation recorded at QCon London 2009, after a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed in front of the audience.

News about Groovy

Is It Premature to Talk About C++ and Java’s Legacy?

Community
Java,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Language Design,
Language,
JRuby

Bruce Eckel’s recent blog post on the legacy left by C++ and Java generated a lot of reaction. While mentioning some design mistakes, he concludes that both languages have had a significant role in programming languages evolution and an important positive legacy. But is it not too early to talk about their legacy?

Make Way for Grails 1.1

Community
Java
Topics
Release

Recently SpringSource released version 1.6 of the Groovy programming language and now they've followed up with a new version of Grails.

Articles about Groovy

What's New in Groovy 1.6

Community
Java,
Ruby
Topics
Announcements,
Dynamic Languages

Groovy project lead writes about Groovy 1.6 changes and improvements, including include performance enhancements, integration of JMX Builder, and OSGi readiness.

Securing a Grails Application with Acegi Security

Community
Java
Topics
Security

This article discusses the integration of the grails-acegi plugin with a sample Grails application. As part of this integration, there are three major components which will be used – Groovy, Grails and Acegi Security.

Presentations about Groovy

Getting Started with Grails

Community
Java
Topics
Dynamic Languages

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Jason Rudolph gives an overview and demonstration of Grails. Topics covered include Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a complete Grails sample application from scratch, the structure of a Grails application, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.

Simplifying Enterprise Development with Groovy

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Dynamic Languages

Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project manager, teaches how scripting with Groovy can increase your productivity and help you build and test solutions faster on the Java platform. Topics include Groovy the language, Ant builder, XML support, Swing support, Groovy's Meta Object Protocol, and more.

Interviews about Groovy

Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms

Community
Java,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Platforms,
Language

Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#.

Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero

Community
Java,
SOA
Topics
Web 2.0,
REST,
Scripting

IBM Fellow and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo talks about REST and Project Zero, IBM's new Groovy & PHP based RESTful app mashup / scripting / dev tool.

Books about Groovy

Getting Started with Grails

Community
Java
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Dynamic Languages

Grails is an open-source, rapid web application development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore the various aspects of Grails and also experience Grails by building a Grails app.