Groovy For Java Programmers

About this Presentation

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java platform. Groovy has a Java like syntax along with many features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. This session covers a lot of ground including many interactive examples to hilite the powerful language features that make Groovy compelling. A lot of momentum is building in the Groovy and Grails communities right now and this session is aimed at Java developers who want to leverage the power of Groovy.

This session is targeted to demonstrate the power of Groovy and help Java developers understand how to leverage that power in their enterprise applications. Topics
include:

• Everything Is An Object
• GStrings
• Closures
• Collections
• Groovy Builders
• Groovy Beans
• Categories
• Ranges
• Java Integration