Articles - Groovy

Here are a bunch of articles and blog posts on all things groovy

Beginners Tutorials

The K&R Series by Simon P. Chappell
Getting Groovy series by James Williams
[Originally a series of three articles. It has been merged into one document.]
Getting Groovy Without the Bad Clothes

James Strachan talks about Groovy

A collection of references to articles and emails by James Strachan on the topic of Groovy.

Guillaume Laforge interviews on Groovy and Grails

General

Templates in Groovy by JavaBeat.
Closures in Groovy by JavaBeat.
Web Development in Groovy using Groovlets by JavaBeat.
Introduction to Groovy - Scripting Language by JavaBeat.
Using Groovy to Send Emails by Paul King.
Groovy: XML Without the Bloat by Pan Pantziarka: Part 1 and Part 2
Russel Winder gave a talk "Builders: How MOPs Make Life Easy" at ACCU 2007 which focused on the way Groovy does things.
Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Groovy - tutorial given by Guillaume Laforge and John Wilson at QCon 2007
BEA Dev2Dev features an introduction to Groovy and Grails
Scott Hickey gave a presentation about Groovy at the Omaha Java User Group, July 2006
Russel Winder had an article introducing Groovy published in {CVU} 18(3):3-7. {CVU} is the journal of the ACCU. For more details on the article click here.
Scott Davis gave a recent presentation about Groovy even mentioning a few words about Grails.
Groovying With the JVM was a presentation given by Russel Winder at the ACCU 2006 conference.
It's a Groovy Day! by Eric Armstrong (inspired by Rod Cope's presentation at JavaOne 2005)
JavaPolis 2004 presentation or video from James and Dion along with a snap of James rambling
JSR 241 - Nov 2004 London Conference presentations
- Keynote(mp3 - 34Mb) by James Strachan
- History of Groovy by Jeremy Rayner
- User Feedback (mp3 - 15Mb) by Guillaume LaForge
Ian Darwin wrote this article for O'Reilly
John Wilson gave this presentation on XML processing in Groovy at XMLOpen 2004 in Cambridge
Ian Darwin gave [this presentation at the Toronto JUG in November|
http://www.darwinsys.com/groovy/jugslides-20041102.pdf]
James Strachan and Rod Cope gave this presentation at JavaOne 2004 or as PDF
Alexander Schmid gave this presentation at the JAOO in Cannes
Rod Cope gave this presentation at the Denver JUG
Laurent Weichberger gave this presentation at JSPRING in the Netherlands
Mike Spille wrote a great review of Groovy
Ted Leung did a great presentation at SeaJUG
Gerald Bauer did a presentation at the
Austria JUG and another one
in Vancouver
Mark Volkmann has written the excellent
Groovy - Scripting in Java
An old presentation James Strachan gave at CodehausOne August 2003 is available as a PPT
Marc Hedlund has written several very good introductory articles about getting stuff done with Groovy (especially with the SwingBuilder). The index of all his articles can be found at O'Reilly's website.
Articles from the Practically Groovy series by Andrew Glover
- Smooth operators

(25 Oct 2005) Of MOPs and mini-languages
(20 Sep 2005) Functional programming with curried closures
(23 Aug 2005) Groovy's growth spurt

(19 Jul 2005) Stir some Groovy into your Java apps

(24 May 2005) syntax prior to the JSR syntax Mark it up with Groovy Builders

(12 Apr 2005) Go server side up, with Groovy
(15 Mar 2005) MVC programming with Groovy templates
(15 Feb 2005) JDBC programming with Groovy
(11 Jan 2005) Ant scripting with Groovy
(14 Dec 2004) Unit test your Java code faster with Groovy
(09 Nov 2004) Craig Castelaz guides you through
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If you're getting to know Groovy John Zukowski will bring you up to speed with Groovy (syntax prior to the JSR syntax)
Matthias Luebken wrote about Implementing OSGi-Services in Groovy.

References

Jeremy Rayner has created a Groovy reference card with latex source

French articles

Guillaume Laforge gave an introductory presentation of Groovy at the Parisian OSS-Get Together event
Guillaume speakrs about the advantage of using dynamic languages to increase the semantic density to
Introduction au langage de script Groovy on the JDN site
Introduction au langage de script Groovy on developpez.com
Intégrer JXTA dans une application Web avec JSF et Groovy par Bertrand Goetzmann
Invoquer un service JBI (Java Business Integration) écrit en Groovy avec AJAX par Bertrand Goetzmann

German articles

May 2007: Joachim Baumann presented Groovy in a talk at the Entwicklertag Karlsruhe. The slides can be downloaded here
Dierk's Groovy series in JavaMagazin.
- 8.2006 Groovy für Java-Entwickler: Dynamische Programmierung auf der Java-Plattform Dynamischer Nachwuchs
- 9.2006 Groovy für Java-Entwickler: Ausdruckskraft durch starke Syntax Klassen- und Objektnotation, Referenzierungsmöglichkeiten, Operatoren, Kontrollstrukturen und Meta-Objekt-Protokoll
- 10.2006 Groovy-Datentypen First class citizens: Zahlen, Strings, Reguläre Ausdrücke, Listen, Maps, Ranges und Closures
- 11.2006 Ausgewählte Groovy-Beispiele Groovy everywhere
- 12.2006 Grails Groovy für Java-Entwickler
- 27.12.2006 Interview: Groovy - das Beste aus der Java- und der Scripting-Welt vereinen
Joachim Baumann gave a presentation about Groovy in German at the "Symposium: Trends in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik" in Stuttgart, September 2006.
An article
by Alexander Schmid
Sigs Datacom article
Dierk's Groovy presentation at JAX 2006 is attached as Groovy at JAX_pub.zip.
Dierk's Groovy usage patterns article in iX Magazin 7/06

Korean articles

Groovy Language Study
Groovy I, Dynamic Agile Scripting Language (Korean Language) by Pilho Kim
Groovy II, Groovlet and GSP \ (Korean Language) by Pilho Kim
Groovy III, Compare Groovy to Other Languages \ (Korean Language) by Pilho Kim

Russian articles

What is Groovy - A brief introduction into Groovy language features by Vadim Voituk
Groovy + JSON + Prototype in Action - Example of using Groovy in a 'real' project
Groovy: Easy extracting XML from database (Russian edition)
... and more russian Groovy articles

Japanese articles

coverage of our JavaOne talk June 2004

Spanish articles

Introduccion a Groovy I - Introduction to Groovy part I by Andres Almiray at Groovy.org.es
Introduccion a Groovy II - Introduction to Groovy part II by Andres Almiray at Groovy.org.es