Chill out with Groovy

In the last few years we have seen new dialects (“little languagesâ€?) and fusions between languages, such as Java and others. One of these is Groovy, which is not meant to replace Java, but to complement and build on Java. From the Groovy web site: “Groovy is a new agile dynamic language for the JVM combining lots of great features from languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk and making them available to the Java developers using a Java-like syntaxâ€?. Groovy is different from other languages for the Java Platform in that it has been approved as a Java Specification Request (JSR-241) and is in progress.  Based on this approval and the discussions around opening up Java (.Net and its many languages, and C# features, etc.) it is clear that compared to Java, Groovy makes many things a lot easier (such as Collections, SQL, XML, unit tests, and many other things). Groovy integrates superbly with Java (Groovy was designed from day one for the Java Platform).  You can actually start using Groovy the day after you have seen this presentation (if you can wait that long). Let us show you how to use it with (existing) Java classes and you will see how Groovy this language really is.

Laurent Weichberger  Trivera Technologies Laurent Weichberger is a Senior Technical Trainer at Trivera Technologies EMEAA. He started working with Java in 1997 at LearningPatterns Inc. in New York City, where he worked as a web application Project Manager, Java Developer and Java Instructor. Laurent has taught J2EE to many of the biggest organizations in America, the UK and the Netherlands, including Cisco Systems. He is a published author and has been living and working in England, since 2003, with his wife and daughter.