I am excited to announce the publication of Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer. The book is about 300 pages (I wanted to write a small book that gets you up to speed quickly) and has eighteen chapters divided into three parts: Beginning Groovy, Using Groovy, and MOPping Groovy. In this book, you will not find details on how to write an if statement or why to write one. The book is intended to quickly introduce Groovy to Java programmers and take them into the depth of the useful and interesting features of Groovy. The dynamic productivity using metaprogramming is what I am most excited about in Groovy and that is one of the key strengths of this book. The book covers the latest version Groovy 1.5.4. I was fortunate to get good input from several Groovy committers and developers during the making of this book. I hope you enjoy reading it, and benefit from it, as much as I did writing it.