After experimenting with Groovy’s AST Browser and noticing that Groovy’s grammar allows closures as annotation values, “pniederw” coded an AST transformation that allows you to pass closures as annotation values. Check out how to empower annotations with Groovy closures.
There’s a nice article over at dzone.com on the latest about Groovy’s GPars library from its project lead, as well as overviews of some of its features like the Asynchronizer class, Actors, and the concurrent collection processor Parallelizer.
Groovy is a dynamic programming language for the JVM that combines Java’s enterprise capabilities with productivity features like closures, builders, dynamic typing and meta-programming. It can either be interpreted or compiled and you can add new methods to classes dynamically at run time, with greater flexibility than standard Java offers. There seems to be an increasing interest in Groovy so I looked around for some quality Groovy tutorials, and here are a few that make the grade. You might want to bookmark this article, as I will actively maintain this list of tutorials, as I do with Digital Media Minute’s well-received ruby on rails tutorial listings.
Interesting post over at pmcoder.com about one software developer’s reasons for deciding to leave PHP in favor of Grails and Groovy.
