Groovy, Java's New Scripting Language

Groovy is a new scripting language for the Java environment. Groovy scripts can be interpreted (for faster development: no compile cycle!) or compiled to Java bytecode (.class format) for faster execution. Groovy accepts most Java constructs but also quite a few of its own. See these links for complete information on Groovy:

• Groovy Project Home Page
• Groovy JSR Home Page
• Groovy Project Official Wiki
• My JUG Talk Slides (PDF) (November, 2004)
• My O'Reilly onJava article about Groovy (September, 2004)
• My Groovy Source Examples (from the above article and talk, and more)
• Get Done with Groovy, Marc Hedlund's useful "hints" blogs (September, 2004)
• Mike Spille's Blog on Groovy: First Contact (March, 2004)
• Michael Ivey's Blog on Quick and Easy Object Persistence: pBeans + Groovy Beans (May, 2004)
• pBeans OR mapping
• Why Java doesn't have Closures, by Guy Steele.