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Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform that has many of the features that inspired languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax.

Groovy works cleanly with all existing Java objects and libraries and compiles straight to Java bytecode!

Groovy is ideally designed for the following purposes :

Developing web applications in a quick, concise and fun way. The Grails demonstrates Groovy's capability in this area.
Bringing the power of a scripting language to the JVM with seamless integration with the Java Platform
Writing concise, meaningful, test cases using Groovy's JUnit integration.
Prototyping and producing real industrial strength applications
Writing shell scripts easily

Groovy can be used as a dynamically or staticly typed language and can either be compiled or interpreted

Groovy introduces powerful additional features to the JVM such as :

Language conceptual enhancements
- Support for closures - re-usable block of code
- Native syntax for lists and maps
- Support the Gof Builder pattern via the notion of builders
- Syntax level regex operators and escape sequences
- Native JavaBean support
- Operator overloading to simplify working with datatypes Collections and Maps
- Polymorphic iteration and autoboxing
- Extension of Java Standard Library through the GDK
- TBD
In addition, Groovy provides useful standard features to enhance developer productivity such as:
- Groovy Markup for XML, DOM, ...
- Groovy Path expression language
- Groovlets for implementing Servlets easily in simple Groovy scripts
- Ant Scripting
- Groovy Categories allow you to add methods to classes with the "use" keyword
- Groovy Template Engines which are pluggable, simple to use, integrate GPath and compile to bytecode
- Groovy SQL for making SQL more Groovy
And providing great user defined modules
- Grails
- Gram
- COM Scripting
- GroovySWT
- GSP
- GSQL
- Process
- XMLRPC

Why Grovvy is a good choice for you

TBD...