Groovy is a new agile dynamic language for the JVM combining lots of great features from languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk and making them available to the Java developers using a Java-like syntax.
Groovy is designed to help you get things done on the Java platform in a quicker, more concise and fun way - bringing the power of Python and Ruby inside the Java platform.
Groovy can be used as an alternative compiler to javac to generate standard Java bytecode to be used by any Java project or it can be used dynamically as an alternative language such as for scripting Java objects, templating or writing unit test cases.
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JavaPolis slides of our Groovy talk available On the Articles page is the JavaPolis 2004 presentation from James and Dion along with a snap of James rambling |
Groovy Beta 8 is released I'm proud and happy to announce the release of Groovy 1.0 beta 8!
I want to thank all the great guys who helped me make this release! Particularly, let me thank:
You can download Groovy there: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download NB: depending on your platform, you may have to chmod +x the shell scripts. Enjoy!Guillaume Laforge |
OSCon Groovy presentation available Having fun here at OSCon, lots of interesting folks to chat to. Gonna be hanging around the interesting looking Ruby talks today. The slides of our Groovy talk are here |
Probably the best way to get started on Groovy is to install a binary distribution and play with it.
Or try reading the user guide or browsing some of the links on the left of this page.
The Groovy project uses DamageControl as a Continuous Integration system to make Groovy build automatically. The little coloured bubble on the left show the status of the last automatic build: if it's green, the build was successful, if it's red, the build failed. And if it is pulsating, it means there's a new build currently in the works.