In this Practically Groovy article, Scott Davis continues building the Groovy Twitter client named Gwitter that he began in Part 1. This time, he tackles HTTP Basic authentication and use of Groovy's ConfigSlurper to read in configuration settings.
In this Practically Groovy article, Scott Davis tackles a topic that strikes fear into most server-side Java developers: Swing. As you'll learn, Groovy's SwingBuilder takes some of the sting out of this powerful yet complex GUI framework.
Scott Davis continues the discussion about Groovy metaprogramming with an in-depth look at the @Delegate annotation, which blurs the distinctions between data type and behavior and static and dynamic typing.
Enter into the world of metaprogramming, Groovy-style. The ability to add new methods to classes dynamically at run time -- even Java classes, and even final Java classes -- is incredibly powerful. Whether used for production code, unit tests, or anything in between, Groovy's metaprogramming capabilities should pique the curiosity of even the most jaded Java developer.
Learn how easy it is to slice and dice XML using Groovy. In this installment of Practically Groovy, author Scott Davis shows that whether you're creating XML with MarkupBuilder and StreamingMarkupBuilder, or parsing XML with XmlParser and XmlSlurper, Groovy offers a set of compelling tools for dealing with this ubiquitous data format.
In this Practically Groovy installment, Scott Davis provides a dizzying array of ways to iterate through ... arrays. And lists. And files. And URLs. And on and on and on. The most impressive part is that Groovy provides a consistent mechanism for walking through all of those collections and more.
Groovy expert Scott Davis reboots the Practically Groovy series, dormant since 2006. This initial installment catches you up on Groovy's recent history and the current state of the Groovy union. Then you'll learn how easy it is to get started with Groovy, circa 2009.
Groovy's concise syntax frees developers from typical Java constructs that are required for code compilation but don't facilitate expressing what a program is really trying to accomplish. In this revival of the Practically Groovy series, Groovy developer and guest columnist J. Scott Hickey walks you through a series of comparisons between normal Java code and the same Groovy code to show you how this exciting language frees you to focus on the important aspects of coding.
The Java language has banned operator overloading, but upstart Groovy says "bring it on!" Find out what you've been missing all these years, as Andrew Glover walks you through everyday uses of Groovy's three categories of overloadable operators in this final, regular installment of Practically Groovy.
Put your ear to the ground and listen closely -- MOP is on the move! Get a primer on the Meta Object Protocol, an old-is-new approach to building applications, languages, and applications as languages.
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