Welcome to the Groovy User Guide. We hope you find it useful.
The User Guide assumes you have already downloaded and installed Groovy. See the Getting Started Guide if this is not the case.
- Advanced OO
- Annotations with Groovy
- Ant Integration with Groovy
- Bean Scripting Framework
- Bitwise Operations
- Builders
- Closures
- Collections
- Compile-time Metaprogramming - AST Transformations
- Control Structures
- Database features
- Dynamic Groovy
- Evaluating the MetaClass runtime
- ExpandoMetaClass
- ExpandoMetaClass - Borrowing Methods
- ExpandoMetaClass - Constructors
- ExpandoMetaClass Domain-Specific Language
- ExpandoMetaClass - Dynamic Method Names
- ExpandoMetaClass - GroovyObject Methods
- ExpandoMetaClass - Interfaces
- ExpandoMetaClass - Methods
- ExpandoMetaClass - Overriding static invokeMethod
- ExpandoMetaClass - Properties
- ExpandoMetaClass - Runtime Discovery
- ExpandoMetaClass - Static Methods
- Global AST Transformations
- Local AST Transformations
- Per-Instance MetaClass
- Runtime mixins
- Using invokeMethod and getProperty
- Using methodMissing and propertyMissing
- GDK Extensions to Object
- Generics
- GPath
- Grape
- Groovy and JMX
- Groovy Categories
- Groovy CLI
- Groovy Console
- Groovy Math
- Groovy Shell
- Groovy Truth
- Groovy Utils
- GUI Programming with Groovy
- Swing Builder
- Alphabetical Widgets List
- SwingBuidler.borderLayout
- SwingBuilder.action
- SwingBuilder.actions
- SwingBuilder.bind
- SwingBuilder.borderLayout
- SwingBuilder.boundedRangeModel
- SwingBuilder.box
- SwingBuilder.boxLayout
- SwingBuilder.button
- SwingBuilder.buttonGroup
- SwingBuilder.cardLayout
- SwingBuilder.checkBox
- SwingBuilder.checkBoxMenuItem
- SwingBuilder.closureColumn
- SwingBuilder.colorChooser
- SwingBuilder.comboBox
- SwingBuilder.compoundBorder
- SwingBuilder.container
- SwingBuilder.desktopPane
- SwingBuilder.dialog
- SwingBuilder.editorPane
- SwingBuilder.emptyBorder
- SwingBuilder.etchedBorder
- SwingBuilder.fileChooser
- SwingBuilder.flowLayout
- SwingBuilder.formattedTextField
- SwingBuilder.frame
- SwingBuilder.gridBagConstraints
- SwingBuilder.gridBagLayout
- SwingBuilder.gridLayout
- SwingBuilder.imageIcon
- SwingBuilder.internalFrame
- SwingBuilder.JComponent
- SwingBuilder.label
- SwingBuilder.layeredPane
- SwingBuilder.lineBorder
- SwingBuilder.list
- SwingBuilder.loweredBevelBorder
- SwingBuilder.map
- SwingBuilder.matteBorder
- SwingBuilder.menu
- SwingBuilder.menuBar
- SwingBuilder.menuItem
- SwingBuilder.optionPane
- SwingBuilder.overlayLayout
- SwingBuilder.panel
- SwingBuilder.passwordField
- SwingBuilder.popupMenu
- SwingBuilder.progressBar
- SwingBuilder.propertyColumn
- SwingBuilder.radioButton
- SwingBuilder.radioButtonMenuItem
- SwingBuilder.raisedBevelBorder
- SwingBuilder.raisedEtchedBorder
- SwingBuilder.scrollBar
- SwingBuilder.scrollPane
- SwingBuilder.separator
- SwingBuilder.slider
- SwingBuilder.spinner
- SwingBuilder.spinnerDateModel
- SwingBuilder.spinnerListModel
- SwingBuilder.spinnerNumberModel
- SwingBuilder.splitPane
- SwingBuilder.springLayout
- SwingBuilder.tabbedPane
- SwingBuilder.table
- SwingBuilder.tableColumn
- SwingBuilder.tableLayout
- SwingBuilder.tableModel
- SwingBuilder.td
- SwingBuilder.textArea
- SwingBuilder.textField
- SwingBuilder.textPane
- SwingBuilder.titledBorder
- SwingBuilder.toggleButton
- SwingBuilder.toolBar
- SwingBuilder.tr
- SwingBuilder.tree
- SwingBuilder.viewport
- SwingBuilder.widget
- SwingBuilder.window
- Categorical Widget List
- Extending Swing Builder
- Multithreading with SwingBuilder
- Alphabetical Widgets List
- SwingXBuilder
- Swing Builder
- IDE Support
- Eclipse Plugin
- About GroovyEclipse Plugin v1
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.0RC1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy Eclipse 1.5.7 Release Notes
- Eclipse Plugin FAQ
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.0M1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.0M2 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.0 New and Noteworthy
- Eclipse Plugin Refactoring
- Create Your First Groovy Project
- Install Groovy-Eclipse Plugin
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse coding conventions
- Extending Groovy Eclipse
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.0.2 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.0RC2 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.0 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.1RC1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.2 New and Noteworthy
- DSL Descriptors for Groovy-Eclipse
- A unified approach to DSL support in IDEs
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.0 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1 New and Noteworthy
- Compiler Switching within Groovy-Eclipse
- Groovy-Eclipse compiler plugin for Maven
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.1.0RC1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.2 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.6.0 New and Noteworthy
- UCOSP
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.6.1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.0 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.1 New and Noteworthy
- Groovy-Eclipse 2.7.2 New and Noteworthy
- DevelopmentBuilds
- IntelliJ IDEA Plugin by JetBrains
- Old and deprecated pages
- Other Plugins
- Eclipse Plugin
- Input Output
- Integration
- JSR 223 Scripting with Groovy
- Logging
- Migration From Classic to JSR syntax
- Operators
- Processing XML
- Creating XML using Groovy's MarkupBuilder
- Creating XML using Groovy's StreamingMarkupBuilder
- Creating XML with Groovy and DOM
- Processing XML with XSLT
- Reading XML using Groovy's DOMCategory
- Reading XML using Groovy's XmlParser
- Reading XML using Groovy's XmlSlurper
- Reading XML with Groovy and DOM
- Reading XML with Groovy and SAX
- Reading XML with Groovy and StAX
- Reading XML with Groovy and XPath
- Updating XML with DOMCategory
- Updating XML with XmlParser
- Updating XML with XmlSlurper
- Using Other XML Libraries
- Validating XML with a DTD
- Validating XML with a W3C XML Schema
- Validating XML with RELAX NG
- XML Example
- Process Management
- Regular Expressions
- Reserved Words
- Running Groovy on .NET 2.0 using IKVM
- Scoping and the Semantics of "def"
- Scripts and Classes
- Statements
- Static Import Usage
- Strings and GString
- Things to remember
- Things you can do but better leave undone
- Using Enums
- Using Spring Factories with Groovy
- WebStart
- OSGi and Groovy
Labels
Page: Advanced OO
Page: Annotations with Groovy
Page: Ant Integration with Groovy
Page: Bean Scripting Framework
Page: Bitwise Operations
Page: Builders
Page: Closures
Page: Collections
Page: Compile-time Metaprogramming - AST Transformations
Page: Control Structures
Page: Database features
Page: Dynamic Groovy
Page: GDK Extensions to Object
Page: Generics
Page: GPath
Page: Grape
Page: Groovy and JMX
Page: Groovy Categories
Page: Groovy CLI
Page: Groovy Console
Page: Groovy Math
Page: Groovy Shell
Page: Groovy Truth
Page: Groovy Utils
Page: GUI Programming with Groovy
Page: IDE Support
Page: Input Output
Page: Integration
Page: JSR 223 Scripting with Groovy
Page: Logging
Page: Migration From Classic to JSR syntax
Page: Operators
Page: Processing XML
Page: Process Management
Page: Regular Expressions
Page: Reserved Words
Page: Running Groovy on .NET 2.0 using IKVM
Page: Scoping and the Semantics of "def"
Page: Scripts and Classes
Page: Statements
Page: Static Import Usage
Page: Strings and GString
Page: Things to remember
Page: Things you can do but better leave undone
Page: Using Enums
Page: Using Spring Factories with Groovy
Page: WebStart
Page: OSGi and Groovy
3 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsAug 07, 2007
tclwarrior
I can't find an entry/node for exception handling and error handling in groovy. would someone please add it?
Sep 17, 2007
Thom Nichols
@tclwarrior:
It is the same as in Java. The only difference being (of course) Exception types are optional:
See also: JN3035-Exceptions
Sep 22, 2009
Kai Pollermann
Is there an up to date offline (preferable HTML) version of the user guide?