I previously blogged on using JavaScript in Java. The same Java Specification Request that allows for JavaScript in Java, JSR 223 (“Scripting for the Java Platform”), allows for including other ...

Groovy 3 tries to close some of the feature gaps that have opened up with recent versions of Java New control flow features include do-while and the enhanced for loop Java-style Lambda Expressions ...

The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Groovy team recently announced the release of Groovy 4.0.0, the latest version of the open source, general-purpose programming language for the Java Virtual ...

Developers often spend too much time configuring build dependencies through boilerplate code amendments and adding resiliency to services and container deployments. Apache Groovy enables developers to ...

Groovy is a relatively new scripting language that resembles Java, it is built on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The main developers are James Strachan and Bob McWhirter. Groovy is a new agile ...

I mostly use Groovy for scripting and many of my scripting needs require the ability to navigate directory structures. In writing such scripts, it is helpful to know which properties are available out ...

Project lead Guillaume Laforge explains what's in store for Groovy, and Grails lead Graeme Roche outlines that related framework's future Groovy is a popular, open source, dynamic language ...

Richard Monson-Haefel posted a blog entry recently called "Groovy: The Sleeping Giant". In it, he says that "dynamic programming" is the wave of the future, and that Groovy has the most potential ...

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