Groovy Language Reference

Groovy Language Reference

Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at improving developer productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax. It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and functional programming.

The Groovy Reference Guide provides beginners with a simple introduction to the basics, and experts will find advanced details they need.

In this you will see the following things below.

* Getting started

- Download Groovy

- Install Groovy

- Differences with Java

- The Groovy Development Kit

- Runtime and compile-time metaprogramming

- The Grape dependency manager

- Testing guide

- Domain-Specific Languages

- Integrating Groovy into applications

- Security

- Design patterns in Groovy

- Style guide

* Language Specification

- Syntax

- Operators

- Program structure

- Object orientation

- Closures

- Semantics

* Tools

- groovyc — the Groovy compiler

- groovysh — the Groovy command -like shell

- groovyConsole — the Groovy Swing console

- IDE integration

* Groovy module guides

- Parsing and producing JSON

- Working with a relational database

- Processing XML

- Scripting Ant tasks

- Template engines

- Creating Swing UIs

- Servlet support

- Working with JMX

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