Presentation Slides

Thanks to Ken for his excellent introduction to the Groovy language.

Abstract

Groovy is part of the new generation of dynamic languages for the JVM.Ê It's not intended to replace Java, but rather to make it easier, more flexible, and more powerful.Ê Groovy is what Java would have been like had it been designed in the 21st Century.Ê Groovy dramatically simplifies Java development, and also brings modern language concepts like builders, closures, and metaprogramming to existing Java systems.Ê The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate both how Groovy makes Java development quicker and easier, and also to show some of Groovy's more advanced features.

The capabilities illustrated will include:

• Groovy beans
• Optional typing
• Easy access and processing XML data
• Unit and functional testing of both Groovy and Java code
• Simplified file and directory handling
• Templating
• Ant builders, Swing builders, and XML builders

Speaker

Ken Kousen is President of Kousen IT, Inc. (http://www.kousenit.com ), through which he does consulting, development, and technical training in all areas of Java and XML. He has been a technical editor for several books related to Java and Groovy, including _Groovy Recipes_ and _Programming Groovy_. Along with Scott Davis, he is the co-author of the upcoming book from O'Reilly entitled _Making Java Groovy_, which is all about integrating Java and Groovy together to make development easier.

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