Groovy

The Groovy tutorial series by Sven Haiges and Groovy in Action author Dierk König has released another issue. This time it is about regular expression support in Groovy. Subscribe to the podcast and improve your Groovy kung-fu while listening. The ... [More] related code examples are available at snipplr tagged groovyseries.What David Black says about Groovy in Action (2007/03/15) :"I’m about half way through Groovy in Action and I’m really enjoying it, and despite having used early versions of Groovy for a couple of years now, I’m learning loads of new tricks. This is a well written technical introduction to the language, and as with all great technical books its easy to read and doesn’t get bogged down. [..]"And here is Victor Charlie (2007/03/15):"From cover to cover I commend the writing style of this book. It teaches theory and teaches it well. GinA shows the most complete, up-to-date usage of Groovy. The price of the book is worth it in just learning how cool XML can be. The Manning Books that are on my shelf are the ones I have kept and the books I NEVER loan out.[..]I just spent 2 weeks trying to embed Groovy into an ongoing java app. Funny, the lines of Groovy code kept getting shorter and shorter. [..]"From the David Sills Groovy in Action review at JavaLobby (rated the maximum of five smileys in all categories):"A unique aspect of the book permeates the examples: [..] This sort of guarantee of accuracy is worth its weight in gold. [..] just clean, well-tested code. And what examples! The authors have not flinched from tackling some decidedly non-trivial issues in their pursuit of examples that would really reveal the features and utility of the language. It is astonishing to see how wide a range of applications Groovy can tackle and how successfully it can simplify and clarify code that in Java could easily become prohibitively complex. The prose style is engaging and highly readable; the author's voice is never excessively prominent. This isn't a collection of opinions, but it does fairly shout excitement about the possibilities it describes. One feels it a work of proselytization in the best sense, a work that radiates an infectious enthusiasm about a new and useful discovery, and that ignites a corresponding enthusiasm in the reader.[..]This book is therefore squarely in the line of other books in Manning's distinguished "In Action" series. It will grace my bookshelf for many a year." [Less]

2007/03/08Read what Alexandru "mindstorm" Popescu, InfoQ chief architect and and co-founder of the TestNG testing framework has to say about Groovy in Action in his blog:".. the Bible of that programming language .." "..  attractive and fun and ... [More] entertaining .." ".. I must confess that I read GINA in less than 3 days, even if it has more than 600 pages (oke, I confess I haven't read it all, but for sure more than 80% of it). And not only that I got that feeling that it is so fun that I cannot stop myself, but I think it fulfills all the characteristics of great and absolutely enjoyable PL book."He closes with:"Finally, without any fear, I would say that Groovy in Action is not just a language guide, but represents the clear, readable and enjoyable specification of Groovy (and you should definitely read it and start playing with Groovy [blink/] )."Big thanks to Alexandru for  this great review and making Groovy annotations-aware such that it can be used with EJB3, Hibernate 3, TestNG, and all other frameworks that rely on annotation support.Dierk König [Less]