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Groovy as a business user language?
With its inclusion into OpenOffice as the VBA equivalent for that suite, Groovy has an opportunity to become something that Java will never be: a tool that business power users use to customize their office suite and build workgroup applications.
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Cool things you can do with Groovy
With dynamic languages playing a role in JDK 6, the "Cool things you can do with Groovy" session was aimed at show casing the features of the Groovy language that can help make developers more productive.
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Does Groovy need a GUI Builder
Geertjan is integrating Groovy support into NetBeans 6.0 and is impressed with the ease of writing Swing code in Groovy. He questions whether a Matisse-like GUI builder is necessary for Groovy. Danno Ferrin responds that layout, specifically GroupLayout is the reason.
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Presentation: Simplifying Enterprise Development with Groovy
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.
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JRuby on Grails?
The head of the JRuby project ponders the possibility of replacing the Groovy parts of the Grails web framework with JRuby. The head of the Grails project responds.
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Will dynamic languages save Swing?
Will dynamic languages save Swing? Does Swing need saving? These questions have been discussed in detail over the last few days with opinions varying from JRuby to Groovy as saving Swing to Swing not needing saving.
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InfoQ Book: Getting Started With Grails
In this latest InfoQ book, Jason Rudolph introduces Grails, an open-source, web-app 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 Grails and experience it by building a Grails app.
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Issues with the ActiveRecord Pattern and Statically Typed Languages
Hibernate team member Emmanuel Bernard recently wrote on the issues with the ActiveRecord pattern and statically typed languages like Java.
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A Discussion On Grails in the Enterprise
Groovy/Grails has continued to gain momentum in recent months. Grails co-founder Steven Devijver recently took a look at the Java web framework space and the case for Grails in the Enterprise.
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Groovy Eclipse Plugin Updated Including Basic Code Completion
The Groovy Eclipse plugin has been updated to make use of Groovy 1.0 and includes basic code completion among its features.
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Groovy 1.0 Released
Groovy 1.0 was officially released today after last month's release candidate. 2007 is shaping up to be a important year in the evolution of the Groovy language with a number of developer and book announcements.
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Groovy Gains Big Sky Sponsorship and aboutGroovy Portal
The momentum behind Groovy continued to increase this week with the announcement of Big Sky Technology's funding of Jochen Theodorou's services full time to work on the project and the launch of the aboutGroovy portal.
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Groovy Marches Toward 1.0 with RC1 Release
Groovy RC1 was released this week. This is a significant milestone in the project with a 1.0 version on the horizon before the end of the year. Among the additions in RC is a re-implemented and reworked Meta-Object Protocol which is the core of Groovy's runtime system.
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InfoQ Article: Painless AOP with Groovy
In this latest article, John McClean shows how to use Groovy's MOP to perform AOP interception without proxyies or bytecode manipulation, and shows how the same is possible in Ruby and other dynamic languages.
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Using Groovy To Write Less Code
In a new IBM DeveloperWorks article, Scott Hickey compares writing code in Java versus Groovy. He finds that Groovy allows developers to focus more time writing algorithms and less time focusing on language semantics.