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

Developing web applications , writing shell scripts easily, writing concise, meaningful, test cases using Groovy's JUnit integration, or prototyping and producing real industrial strength applications have never been so concise and groovy.

Groovy works cleanly with all existing Java objects and libraries and compiles straight to Java bytecode in either application development or scripting mode.

Groovy provides powerful additional :

• language conceptual enhancements
  • Support for closures - re-usable blocks 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
• 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
• great user defined modules
  • Grails : Groovy-based web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails
  • Gram : a simple xdoclet-like tool for processing doclet tags or Java 5 annotations
  • COM Scripting
  • GroovySWT : wrapper around SWT , the eclipse graphical library
  • GroovySOAP: accessing through groovy web services
  • GSP : Groovy server pages
  • GSQL : accessing databases through Groovy
  • Process : handling external processes
  • XML-RPC : RPC over HTTP really easilly
  • Jabber-RPC: RPC over Jabber based instant messaging systems (including Google Talk)
  • GoogleDataSupport: Use the Google Data APIs esilly from within Groovy
  • GORM : Grails Object-Relational Mapping
  • Groovy Monkey: Eclipse Monkey port to Groovy with some enhancements.

Enjoy making your code groovier !!!!

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Guillaume Laforge posted on Apr 16, 2013

Contribute a dedicated CI server for Groovy!

The Groovy team is always looking at ways to further improve and encourage the collaboration and contributions from the community.

Today, the we are looking for a sponsor for a dedicated server that would host our new Continuous Integration server. If you or your company is interested in helping Groovy by contributing hardware and/or hosting, please contact us.

The details of the project are available here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/A+new+CI+server+for+the+Groovy+project

On behalf of the Groovy team, thanks in advance for your help and support!

We're looking forward to hearing from you.

Guillaume Laforge posted on Apr 12, 2013

Groovy 2.0.8 and 2.1.3 released

Heads up on a joint bug-fix release, with Groovy 2.0.8 and 2.1.3.

We released the 2.0.8 bug fix in particular for Grails which was affected by a couple issues but that hadn't planned on migrating just yet to the 2.1.x line.

If you want to learn more about the issues closed, please have a look at the JIRA release notes for Groovy 2.0.8 and Groovy 2.1.3. 

Head down to the Download section to download our the latest releases.

Thanks for all your contributions, and keep on groovy'ing!

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