By Venkat Subramaniam
April 2008
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 318
ISBN 10: 1-934356-09-3 |
ISBN 13: 9781934356098
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(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, agile, dynamic language that runs on the rich framework of the Java Platform. Groovy preserves the Java semantics and extends the JDK to give you true dynamic language capabilities⎯programming in Groovy feels like you're using an augmented Java. Programming Groovy will help you learn and take advantage of the latest version of this rich dynamic language, so you can be a more productive Java Platform developer.
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Groovy is one of a new breed of dynamic languages that run on the Java platform. You can use these new languages on the JVM and intermix them with your existing Java code. You can leverage your Java investments while benefiting from advanced features including true Closures, Meta Programming, the ability to create internal DSLs, and a higher level of abstraction.
If you're an experienced Java developer, Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You'll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming including using Meta Programming, Builders, Unit Testing with Mock objects, processing XML, working with Databases and creating your own Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs).
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Groovy intro for Java Developers, May 09 2008
A friend recommended I look into Groovy; having had good experiences with The Pragmatic Programmers series previously, this title found its way to my bookshelf. As anticipated, it is well written and easy to read through. Normally I use tech books more as a reference than a start-to-finish read, but this book has been an exception.
I appreciate the level of detail the author goes into around the Groovy concepts, such as Dynamic Typing or Closures, and how they relate to what a Java developer would be familiar with. Not so much detail to drone academic, but enough to answer the "What/Why/How". I'm not familiar enough with Groovy to comment on how comprehensive it is, but it appears to cover just about everything I was looking for.
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"If you are not already a Java programmer, you won't need this book; but if you are concerned with adding dynamic productivity this is a good introduction to the concept, as well as a tutorial in the Groovy programming language. It starts off simply (assuming you are already familiar with Java) and continues to some very sophisticated techniques. Java Programmers concerned with looming obsolescence will find this a valuable book. "
-- Jerry Pournelle, Chaos Manor
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