Here are a bunch of articles and blog posts on all things groovy
Beginners Tutorials
- The K&R Series by Simon P. Chappell
- Getting Groovy series by James Williams
James Strachan talks about Groovy
- A collection of references to articles and emails by James Strachan on the topic of Groovy.
Guillaume Laforge interviews on Groovy and Grails
General
- Scott Hickey gave a presentation about Groovy at the Omaha Java User Group, July 2006
- Russel Winder had an article introducing Groovy published in {CVU} 18(3):3-7. {CVU} is the journal of the ACCU. For more details on the article click here.
- Scott Davis gave a recent presentation about Groovy even mentioning a few words about Grails.
- Groovying With the JVM was a presentation given by Russel Winder at the ACCU 2006 conference.
- It's a Groovy Day! by Eric Armstrong (inspired by Rod Cope's presentation at JavaOne 2005)
- JavaPolis 2004 presentation or video from James and Dion along with a snap of James rambling

- JSR 241 - Nov 2004 London Conference presentations
- Keynote(mp3 - 34Mb) by James Strachan
- History of Groovy by Jeremy Rayner
- User Feedback (mp3 - 15Mb) by Guillaume LaForge
- Ian Darwin wrote this article for O'Reilly
- John Wilson gave this presentation on XML processing in Groovy at XMLOpen 2004 in Cambridge
- Ian Darwin gave [this presentation at the Toronto JUG in November|
http://www.darwinsys.com/groovy/jugslides-20041102.pdf] - James Strachan and Rod Cope gave this presentation at JavaOne 2004 or as PDF
- Alexander Schmid gave this presentation at the JAOO in Cannes
- Rod Cope gave this presentation at the Denver JUG
- Laurent Weichberger gave this presentation at JSPRING in the Netherlands
- Mike Spille wrote a great review of Groovy
- Ted Leung did a great presentation at SeaJUG
- Gerald Bauer did a presentation at the Austria JUG
- Mark Volkmann has written the excellent Groovy - Scripting in Java
- An old presentation James Strachan gave at CodehausOne August 2003 is available as a PPT
- Marc Hedlund has written several very good introductory articles about getting stuff done with Groovy (especially with the SwingBuilder). The index of all his articles can be found at
- Articles from the
Practically Groovy
series by Andrew Glover
- Smooth operators(25 Oct 2005)
- Of MOPs and mini-languages(20 Sep 2005)
- Functional programming with curried closures(23 Aug 2005)
- Groovy's growth spurt(19 Jul 2005)
- Stir some Groovy into your Java apps(24 May 2005) syntax prior to the JSR syntax
- Mark it up with Groovy Builders(12 Apr 2005)
- Go server side up, with Groovy(15 Mar 2005)
- MVC programming with Groovy templates(15 Feb 2005)
- JDBC programming with Groovy(11 Jan 2005)
- Ant scripting with Groovy(14 Dec 2004)
- Unit test your Java code faster with Groovy(09 Nov 2004)
- Craig Castelaz guides you through
Groovy closureson java.net (syntax prior to the JSR syntax)
- If you're
getting to know GroovyJohn Zukowski will bring you up to speed with Groovy (syntax prior to the JSR syntax)
References
- Jeremy Rayner has created a Groovy reference card with [ latex source ]
French articles
- Guillaume Laforgegave an introductory presentation of Groovy at the Parisian OSS-Get Together event
German articles
- An article by Alexander Schmid
- Sigs Datacom article
- Mittie's Groovy presentation at JAX 2006 is attached as Groovy at JAX_pub.zip.
- Mittie's Groovy usage patterns article in iX Magazin 7/06
Korean articles
- Groovy Language Study
- Groovy I, Dynamic Agile Scripting Language(Korean Language) by Pilho Kim
- Groovy II, Groovlet and GSP (Korean Language) by Pilho Kim
- Groovy III, Compare Groovy to Other Languages (Korean Language) by Pilho Kim
Japanese articles
- coverage of our JavaOne talk June 2004
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