Meta-programming in Groovy
This session explores some of the programming techniques that a powerful dynamic language enables, in particular meta-programming or the art of writing code that writes code. Meta-programming techniques are being used extensively in many successful frameworks based on dynamic languages such as Rails, Grails and countless others. Learn how you can use meta-programming in Groovy to improve and streamline your Java applications.
This session explores some of the programming techniques that a powerful dynamic language enables, in particular meta-programming or the art of writing code that writes code. Meta-programming techniques are being used extensively in many successful frameworks based on dynamic languages such as Rails, Grails and countless others. Learn how you can use meta-programming in Groovy to improve and streamline your Java applications.
About Brian Sam-Bodden
Brian Sam-Bodden is a developer advocate at Redis Labs as well as an author, instructor, speaker, and hacker who has spent over twenty years crafting software systems. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University in computer science and physics. Brian is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences nationally and abroad and is the author of “Beginning POJOs: Spring, Hibernate, JBoss and Tapestry”, co-author of the “Enterprise Java Development on a Budget: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies” and a contributor to O'Reilly's “97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know”.
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