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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

Modules

• COM Scripting — script Windows ActiveX and COM components with Groovy
• Gant
• GFreeMarker — an integration of the FreeMarker template engine for Groovy
• Google Data Support — makes using the Google Data APIs easier from within Groovy
• Gram — a simple xdoclet-like tool for processing doclet tags or Java 5 annotations
• GraphicsBuilder — GraphicsBuilder is a Groovy builder for Java 2D
• Grapplet
• Griffon — Dekstop Enhancements for Groovy
• Groosh — Provides a shell-like capability for handling external processes.
• Groovy Jabber-RPC — allows you to make XML-RPC calls using the Jabber protocol
• GroovyJMS
• GroovyLab — Provides a domain specific language (DSL) for math engineering (matlab-like syntax).
• Groovy Monkey — is a dynamic scripting tool for the Eclipse Platform
• GroovyRestlet — Groovy DSL for constructing Restlet application
• Groovy Science
• Groovy SOAP — create a SOAP server and make calls to remote SOAP servers using Groovy
• GroovySWT — a wrapper around SWT, the eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit
• GroovyWS — GroovySOAP replacement that uses CXF and Java5 features
• GSP — means GroovyServer Pages, which is similar to JSP (JavaServer Pages)
• GSQL — supports easier access to databases using Groovy
• HTTP Builder — provides a convenient builder API for complex HTTP requests
• JideBuilder — JideBuilder is a Groovy builder for the open source JIDE Common Layer
• MetaBuilder — MetaBuilder is a builder that builds builders.
• Native Launcher — a native program for launching groovy scripts
• Proxy-o-Matic — Proxy-o-Matic lets you create dynamic proxies fast and in an homogeneous way
• Windows NSIS-Installer — a Windows-specific installer for Groovy
• Windows Services — framework for Groovy-based WinNT (Windows) Services
• WingSBuilder — WingsBuilder is a Groovy builder for the wingS Framework
• XMLRPC — allows you to create a local XML-RPC server and/or to make calls on remote XML-RPC servers
• GroovyFX — GroovyFX provides a Groovy binding for JavaFX 2.0.
• Gaelyk — Gaelyk is a lightweight Groovy toolkit for developing and deploying Groovy applications on Google App Engine.
• GMaven
• Groovy Transforms — Provides additional AST Transformations

• Grails — a Groovy-based web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails
• GORM — the Grails Object-Relational Mapping persistence framework
• Griffon — a Groovy-based desktop framework inspired by Grails
• GroovyPlugin — A Groovy plugin for JSPWiki
• OCM Groovy — A Object Content Mapping implemented in Groovy leveraging the Java Content Repository (JCR)
• Tellurium — A test framework built on top of the Selenium test framework implemented in Groovy
• Gradle — The next generation build system
• GPars — A Groovy concurrency/parallelism library
• CodeNarc — Static analysis for defects, bad practices, inconsistencies and style issues in Groovy code.
• GroovyServ — GroovyServ makes Groovy’s startup time much faster, by pre-invoking Groovy as a server.
• GBench — The benchmarking module for Groovy
• GProf — The profiling module for Groovy

Enjoy making your code groovier !!!!

Latest news

Guillaume Laforge posted on Jun 14, 2013

Groovy 2.1.5 bug fix release

Dear all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.5.

Groovy 2.1.5 is a bug fix release of the Groovy 2.1 branch. In particular, it fixes a problem we've encountered with Groovy 2.1.4 where the extension module descriptors were not found in the "all" JAR, which meant that the usual nice GDK methods extensions for XML and other modules were not found by Groovy.

You can download Groovy 2.1.5 in the download area and have a look at the JIRA release notes.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release!

Keep on groovy'ing!

Guillaume Laforge posted on May 31, 2013

Groovy 2.1.4 released

The Groovy development team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 2.1.4.

Groovy 2.1.4 is essentially a bug fix release of our 2.1 branch, and you can dive into the details in our JIRA release notes.

You can get the distribution in our download area.

Thanks a lot to all those who contributed to this release, and we're looking forward to hearing your feedback!

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