Groovy

I needed a quick and simple way to enable some users to query a table and figured out that the easiest solution was to use an embedded, ligthweight HTTP server so that the users could type a URL in their browser and get the results. The question was, of course, which server is best for it. I’d like to summarize ...

Groovy 1.8.0 released in April brought a lot of new features to the language, one of them is native JSON support through JsonSlurper for reading JSON and JsonBuilder for writing JSON. I recently used JsonBuilder in one of my projects and initially experienced some difficulties in understanding how it operates. My assumption was that JsonBuilder works similarly to MarkupBuilder but ...

In one of my projects we had very complicated domain model, which included more than hundred of different domain object types. It was a pure Java project and, honestly, Java is very verbose with respect to object instantiation, initialization and setting properties. Suddenly, the new requirement to allow users define and use own object models came up. So … the ...

Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform and can be used as a scripting language. Most of us but instead of using Groovy alone, we use Grails (web framework based on Groovy) for developing web applications. But Groovy can be used standalone for developing your internal tools. Let me explain why Groovy scripts have simplified our development ...