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- is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform with many features that are inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve
- makes writing shell scripts and build scripts easier than ever by supporting powerful processing primitives, a touch of OO programming and an Ant domain specific language
- increases developer productivity by reducing scaffolding code when developing web, GUI, database or console applications
- makes writing concise meaningful maintainable code easier than ever by supporting domain specific languages, closure expressions and many compact syntax abbreviations
- greatly simplifies testing because all the support you need including unit testing and mocking is built right in
- cleanly integrates with all existing Java objects and libraries and compiles straight to Java bytecode in either application development or scripting mode.
Groovy, a creative and innovative project
JAX is the most important Java conference in Germany. Every year, the organizers are running a contest to select the most innovative and creative projects. From over 40 proposals, the jury selected only ten nominees. Although great projects were selected, like the Matisse GUI builder in NetBeans, or the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management solution, Groovy won the first prize!
It is a great honor and a huge pleasure for us to receive such a prize,
especially knowing the cool projects we were competing with, or the past winners like the Spring framework.
Dierk König, author of the best-selling "Groovy in Action"
book, received the prize in the name of the Groovy community, after
having presented several sessions on Groovy at this conference. Dierk
took a picture of the prize if you want to see what it looks like.
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"Groovy is like a super version of Java. It can leverage Java's enterprise capabilities but also has cool productivity features like closures, builders and dynamic typing. If you are a developer, tester or script guru, you have to love Groovy."
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SamplesA simple hello world script:
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Documentation [more]
Modules [more]
The following modules and contributions are currently available:
- 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 — A benchmarking framework for Groovy
Enjoy making your code groovier !!!!
Latest news
If you wish to stay up-to-date with our vibrant community, you can learn more about:
- the latest posts from our mailing-lists
- the latest commits to our SVN trunk
- the buzz around Groovy in the blogosphere
And below, you will find the latest announcements:
