Twin Cities Software Symposium - No Fluff Just Stuff
NFJS2012

Twin Cities Software Symposium

October 26 - 28, 2012

Creating DSLs in Groovy

Saturday - Oct 27 9:00 AM CDT - Washington

Domain Specific Languages have two main characteristics, fluency and context. Creating external DSLs has the advantage of good validation. However, we have to struggle with parsers. Internal DSLs offer the benefit of using the language as the host and its compiler as the parser. For a language to be a host, it needs two important characteristics: low-ceremony and metaprogramming.

In this workshop you will learn how to create internal DSLs using Groovy metaprogramming and scripting techniques. We will start with a short warmup of metaprogramming techniques and then dive into creating DSLs.

Venkat Subramaniam

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.

Workshop Requirements

This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.

Attendees are expected to pair up and work on the labs. Software requirements:

  • Latest version of Groovy (beta version is fine).
  • Your favorite IDE or editor for writing and running Groovy code.

About Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.