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John Wilson: Groovy and XML

John Wilson is mainly known to the Groovy community because of his work on XmlSlurper, one of the easiest ways to work with XML in the JVM. Continue reading to...

0 replies - 3862 views - 04/01/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Book Review:Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

Chapter 1, Introduction, as the name implied introduces you to Groovy, and also gives a road map of what you will be reading in this book. Chapter 2, Getting Started, shows you how to...

2 replies - 4616 views - 04/01/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews

Is Groovy 60 Times Slower than Java?

 (In a word, no!) In a pair of very intriguing postings (here and here), Tiago details what he has been observing about the comparative performance of Groovy...

12 replies - 10372 views - 03/26/08 by Rick Ross in News

Hudson's so Groovy

Having used Cruise Control for almost 4 years, when I started looking at Hudson last week, I was impressed seeing how easy it was to configure and get it up...

0 replies - 6245 views - 03/24/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Groovy / Grails support in NetBeans and GlassFish

Sun engineer Matthias Schmidt has just published an article on the progress of the Groovy and Grails support in NetBeans. The Aquarium also...

0 replies - 2323 views - 03/23/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

Paul King: Groovy and Agile

Paul King is known to the Groovy community as one of the coauthors of Groovy in Action and as an avid committer on the project, but he is also a regular...

0 replies - 2422 views - 03/20/08 by Andres Almiray in News

GraphicsBuilder Tutorial IV: Strokes

Part four of the GraphicsBuilder tutorial series. It is now the turn for Strokes, with them you can change the appearance of any shape, outline or group.

0 replies - 4658 views - 03/16/08 by Andres Almiray in Articles

Seamless integration of Java and Groovy with IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA provides a seamless and all-embracing development environment for integrated Java and Groovy development with high-end, borderless Debugging and...

0 replies - 6647 views - 03/12/08 by Michael Hüttermann in Articles

Using Groovy & BeanBuilder for Spring + Hibernate Integration Testing

It is already pretty widely known how great Groovy is for writing unit tests for your Java code. Thanks to having first class constructs for lists, maps and...

2 replies - 8381 views - 03/12/08 by Graeme Rocher in Articles

Grails vs. Rails - My Thoughts

In a recent comment on my blog, Jared Peterson asked: I'm curious if you have any thoughts on folks that might be trying to make a decision between Rails and...

20 replies - 13342 views - 03/07/08 by Matt Raible in News

Follow up on Writing unit tests using Groovy

Tomas Malmsten recently wrote on Writing unit tests using Groovy, one of the reasons he choose Groovy for testing is that you can be more expressive with it,...

0 replies - 2699 views - 03/06/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Writing unit tests using Groovy

Groovy can greatly decrease the level of work involved in creating unit tests for your Java code. I find that this is especially evident in the number of code...

1 replies - 5130 views - 03/06/08 by Tomas Malmsten in News

Log4J the groovy way...

While developing around now or then one wants something printed out at the console of his/her IDE. Well, with Groovy, it's easy: println "Hello...

17 replies - 8537 views - 03/04/08 by Gerhard Balthasar in Tips and Tricks

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 - 9587 views - 03/01/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News

JavaPolis interview with Guillaume LaForge, Groovy project lead

At JavaPolis '07, Dick Wall and Carl Quinn of JavaPosse fame have interviewed Guillaume Laforge, the Groovy project manager, and asked him about:

0 replies - 1521 views - 03/01/08 by Guillaume Laforge in News