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JmxBuilder (Groovy DSL for JMX)

JmxBuilder 0.5 (beta) has been released.  After some constructive feedback (see previous post about JmxBuilder in April), I redesigned the DSL to be more...

0 replies - 1619 views - 12/14/08 by Vladimir in Announcements

Groovy Recipes - Greasing the Wheels of Java

In Chapter 1, “Introduction”, author Scott Davis provides some pretty good arguments for learning Groovy; starting with this quote, “Groovy is what Java would look like had it been written in...

0 replies - 2860 views - 11/11/08 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Programming Groovy - Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer

1. In the intro Venkat makes a good case for the value of dynamic languages in general and Groovy in particular. 2. Getting Started – Along with the usual downloading and installing instructions...

4 replies - 3369 views - 04/14/08 by Dave Klein in Book Reviews

A Domain-Specific Language for unit manipulations

Domain-Specific Languages are a hot topic, and have been popularized by languages like Groovy and Ruby thanks to their malleable syntax which make...

1 replies - 9549 views - 03/01/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

StateMachine: a Builder-Builder for Groovy, part 1

Things are moving quickly on the Groovy DSL side these days. Not only have I been lately discovering a new Groovy builder almost every day, I'm also continuing...

6 replies - 3796 views - 02/04/08 by Steven Devijver in News

Is LINQ leaving Java in the dust?

Interesting story today asking whether LINQ has given .NET an edge over Java. LINQ is best-known as a way to embed SQL-like statements directly in code. ...

3 replies - 9797 views - 01/30/08 by Alex Miller in News

Experimental DslHelper for more concise DSL support code

As a follow up to the previous DSL article I propose DslHelper, an experimental class to further simplify DSL support code. Consider this DSL: architecture...

2 replies - 1498 views - 01/21/08 by Steven Devijver in News

A Groovy DSL from scratch in 2 hours

Today is my lucky day. Through DZone I found Architecture Rules, a lovely little framework that abstracts JDepend. Architecture Rules is configured via its...

5 replies - 11888 views - 01/20/08 by Steven Devijver in News