Since Groovy 2.0, the Groovy language offers the ability to type check your code at compile time. Type checking is a nice feature for people who come from a strongly typed language world and do not feel comfortable with dynamic typing. On the other hand, Groovy is also a perfect …
Java is the main language for the JVM, but it has several shortcomings. In the last few years, several modern languages such as Groovy, Scala, and Clojure have emerged for the JVM besides the almighty Java to improve the programming experience and create sustainable software.
The Java platform has supported concurrent programming since its early days. However, the standard means of multithreading and synchronization have been difficult to master. This talk explores how with the help of GPars, Groovy’s library for concurrent programming, concepts like fork/join, map/reduce, actors, and dataflow can make our concurrent tasks …
From JRuby to Clojure, Jython to Groovy, there are many different scripting languages that can now be embedded and integrated into a JVM. And there are almost as many different ways of doing it! This presentation compares and contrasts some of the different ways of embedding scripting languages in Java, …
Domain specific languages have been the Next Big Thing for years now, but they have quietly started penetrating the development world. This talk covers language techniques in Java, Groovy, and Ruby on how and why to create DSLs. This session of the last Jazoon conference demonstrates with motivation for converting …
This screencast covers Gaelyk, Groovy, and Google App Engine development. Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine Java. This tutorial starts a new Gaelyk project from scratch and creates a basic CRUD application. This was recorded during the Atlanta Groovy and Grails User Group meeting (ATL2G) by …
