Getting Started

Downloading, Installing and Running

• Download
• Installing Groovy
• Running

Up and Running

• Quick Start
• Beginners Tutorial
  • Getting started
  • Code as data, or closures
  • Classes and Objects
  • Regular expressions basics
  • Capturing regex groups
  • Groovy SQL
• Feature Overview
• Differences from Java
• Differences from Ruby

Some of the Groovy Modules

• • Ant Scripting
  • Groovlets
  • Groovy Beans
  • Groovy Templates
  • GroovyMarkup
  • CLIBuilder

The basics

Language basics

• Collections
• Closures
• Control Structures
  • Logical Branching
  • Looping
• Builders
• Bitwise Operations
• Statements
• Strings
• Groovy Math
• Input Output
• Logging
• Operator Overloading
• Regular Expressions
• GPath
• Scoping and the Semantics of "def"
• Scripts and Classes
• Things to remember
• Groovy Categories
• Migration From Classic to JSR syntax

Groovy from the Command-Line

• Groovy CLI
• Groovy Console

Integrating Groovy into your build

• Groovy Ant Task
• Groovyc Ant Task
• Ant Task Troubleshooting
• Compiling Groovy

Working with Java

• Bean Scripting Framework
• Embedding Groovy

Working with XML

• Processing XML
  • Creating XML using Groovy's MarkupBuilder
  • Creating XML using Groovy's StreamingMarkupBuilder
  • Creating XML with Groovy and DOM
  • Creating XML with Groovy and DOM4J
  • Creating XML with Groovy and JDOM
  • Creating XML with Groovy and XOM
  • Reading XML using Groovy's DOMCategory
  • Reading XML using Groovy's XmlParser
  • Reading XML using Groovy's XmlSlurper
  • Reading XML with Groovy and DOM
  • Reading XML with Groovy and DOM4J
  • Reading XML with Groovy and Jaxen
  • Reading XML with Groovy and JDOM
  • Reading XML with Groovy and SAX
  • Reading XML with Groovy and StAX
  • Reading XML with Groovy and XOM
  • Reading XML with Groovy and XPath
  • XML Example

More Advanced Topics

DSLs and Functional Programming

• Functional Programming
• Writing Domain-Specific Languages

Creating a Builder

• BuilderSupport
• Make a builder

• Leveraging Spring
• Mixed Java and Groovy Applications
• Security

• Advanced OO
  • Groovy way to implement interfaces

Testing with Groovy

• Groovy Mocks — used to assist (typically unit) testing of classes in isolation
  • Developer Testing using Closures instead of Mocks
  • Developer Testing using Maps and Expandos instead of Mocks
  • Groovy Mocks and Java Mocks - An Extended Example
• Integrating TPTP — some hints for using the Eclipse TPTP facilities with Groovy
• Test Combinations — some hints for using Groovy to assist generate test data in particular all combinations and all pair combinations
  • Effectiveness of testing combinations with all pairs
• Test Coverage — is a useful measure of the effectiveness of unit tests and can be derived for Groovy tests
  • Code Coverage with Cobertura
• Testing Web Applications — how to use NekoHTML, HtmlUnit, Watij and WebTest to test web applications
• Testing Web Services — how to test Web Services using Groovy directly and in conjunction with WebTest and SoapUI
• Unit Testing — Groovy simplifies JUnit testing, making it more Groovy, in several ways