Groovy and Java 8
Groovy works cleanly with Java 8, but goes beyond it. In additional to basic functional programming, Groovy also provides techniques to use memoization, trampolining, tail recursion, and closure currying. Groovy also makes it easy to use closures to process relational data, both with simple queries and when calling stored procedures.
Groovy also includes closure composition to assemble functions, as well as traits, which go beyond the new interface capabilities in Java 8. All of these features will be demonstrated, along with tests.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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