JSR 241 - The Groovy Programming Language - London Meeting (Nov 2004)

Groovy is a new agile dynamic language for the JVM. Groovy is designed to help you get things done on the Java platform in a quicker, more concise and fun way.

Location

Regis House (Bishopsgate Room - photos1, 2, 3)

Date

Thursday November 11th - Core decisions day
Friday November 12th - Experiment day

Who Will attend

role

whom

11th/AM

PM

Eve

12th/AM

PM

Eve

despot

James Strachan

yes

a little

driver

Guillaume LaForge

yes

no


	Patrick Mueller(IBM)
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
driver
	Jeremy Rayner
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes


	John Rose (Sun)
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes
	yes


	RobNewsome(CapGemini)
	no
	no
	yes
	yes
	yes



Philip Milne


	yes







Benedict Heal


	yes
	yes

	no
	no
	no



Neil Ellis


	yes
	yes













	Aaron Alpar







	William Burdick Jr







	RandalHanford(Boeing)







	Derek Lane







	Geir Magnusson (Apc)







	Richard MonsonHaefel















	Clinton L Combs
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no


	Chris Poirier
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no



Dion Almaer


	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no


	Rahul Tyagi
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no


	John Wilson
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no


	JonTirsen(Thughtwrks)
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no
	no

Purpose

This meeting is going to be held for 3 primary reasons

planning & decision making

success criteria
an agreed Project Definition Document

problem solving & brainstorming

success criteria
Categorised issues of the day
(solved / takenOffline / unsolvable / removed)

information sharing & presentations - might be nice

success criteria
mini presentation from delegates about Groovy usage
Jez - Groovy in the Press (points to learn)
Guillaume
others...

Agenda

Thursday morning:

Walk through agenda & define ground rules
- democratic... then autocratic despot if nothing can be agreed upon
- 'parking lot' - for issues to take offline
- Getting enough rest, eating right, and avoiding too much caffeine or other stimulants.
Introductions
James' keynote
mini presentations
_tea break_
Work session on Project Definition Document (key deliverables etc)
Brainstorming session to pick out issues for afternoon juicy stuff.

_lunch at nearby restaurant (pay for your own)_

12:30 @ Fineline

Thursday afternoon:

Workshop on the main points defined in the morning scope
scoping rules
closure syntax
break in closure
classes are always objects
declarations have values
dispatching methods on Class
Extending classes
naming ambiguities
object allocation
open and closed blocks
optional parenthesis
optional semicolon
Whitespace support
block, label, curly braces
property versus field scoping
specifying GroovyMarkup
statements have values
static typing rules

Thursday evening:

get out and discuss in a more friendly environment full of beer at the London Java Meetup

Friday:

Workshop on the minor points
type casting
Integer division operator
syntax of operators
Intra-Type Declarations
Make sets a built-in type
support 'in' as a contains syntax sugar
use is instead of triple equals
script file class naming and assembly


	meeting requirements
venue
	whiteboard + pens
venue
	chairs for up to 14 people
venue
	wifi ?
venue
	near restaurants
all
	your laptop (if you have one)
all
	a stack of white paper with tricky groovy samples
all
	snacks of your own.
jez
	index cards + big black marker + blu-tack
jez
	camera
jez
	fourblocks (for electricity)
MrG
	camera
jez
	minidisc recorder + microphone + enough blank discs

Groovy Meeting in London 2004