Groovy

Custom Groovy DSL support

This time I have a little surprise up in my sleeve. An experimental feature which we would like to get some feedback on from you. Look carefully at the...

4 replies - 1346 views - 11/11/09 by vaclav in Articles

On static compilation of Groovy

Groovy is the great programming language. Period. I am not going to argue about that and I don't plan to convince anybody. If you don't share this belief or...

11 replies - 3845 views - 11/10/09 by Alex Tkachman in Articles

Groovy, Sometimes You Still Need a Semicolon.

Like Javascript, semicolons are optional in Groovy except for when they aren't optional. These examples are both pretty contrived, though I found both because...

3 replies - 1123 views - 11/06/09 by Scott Leberknight in Articles

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 - 2291 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 - 1671 views - 10/26/09 by Hamlet D'Arcy 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 - 3639 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 - 7233 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 - 2511 views - 09/15/09 by vaclav in News

Griffon 0.2 Beta Release

The Griffon team is happy to announce the beta release of Griffon 0.2. Griffon is a Grails like framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using Groovy.  Griffon...

0 replies - 1273 views - 09/10/09 by Andres Almiray in Announcements

Interview: James Williams on Griffon

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

0 replies - 2896 views - 08/28/09 by Alex Miller in News

Grails 1.2 creates IntelliJ IDEA projects files for you

As of Grails 1.2-M2 you no longer need to explicitly create new IDEA projects for your grails applications. The grails create-app command will create an...

2 replies - 2711 views - 08/12/09 by vaclav in Articles

State-of-the-art Groovy support in IntelliJ IDEA videos

Following on the handy "Groovy intentions in IDEA" screencast, I'd like to steer your attention towards the two very recent additions to the Groovy...

0 replies - 2204 views - 08/04/09 by vaclav in Tips and Tricks

Interview: meet the Groovy Eclipse v2 team

DZone caught up with the team responsible for the latest developments on the Groovy Eclipse plugin v2. Continue reading to know  more about Andrew Eisenberg,...

2 replies - 3228 views - 08/03/09 by Andres Almiray in News

Gant 1.7.0 released

With the formal release of Groovy 1.6.4, it seemed time for there to be a Gant release. Since there were lots of new goodies, it seemed appropriate to...

0 replies - 728 views - 08/02/09 by Andres Almiray in Announcements

Groovy 1.6.4 and 1.7-beta-1 in the wild

The Groovy development team and SpringSource are happy to announce the joint release of Groovy 1.6.4 and a preview of Groovy 1.7.

0 replies - 1656 views - 07/31/09 by Andres Almiray in Announcements