Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic by Scott Davis

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Even if you are new to Groovy or you are an skilled Groovy programmer, Groovy Recipes, is a must-have reference e-book. Groovy Recipes, is sweet at giving a easy rationalization on Groovy center innovations. yet, its genuine power is in offering a plethora of examples, that maintain you coming again to this e-book, time and again, to benefit the easy beauty of writing Groovy code. no matter if you are an skilled Java or Groovy programmer, you will need this e-book on your programming device field. I usually reference Chapters 6,7 and eight, "File Tricks," "Parsing XML" and "Writing XML," respectively. The final chapters of the ebook, which hide Grails, are okay, if you'd like a basic knowing of what Grails is and the way to take advantage of it. although, if Grails is your larger curiosity, there are greater books that you'll want to have in your shelf to reference (e.g. Groovy and Grails Recipes and The Definitive advisor to Grails).Bottom line, if Groovy is your fundamental programming language, this is often an exceptional booklet to have on your arsenal.

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Next, I can wrap those results in HTML fragments using the MarkupBuilder named html that is available to every Groovlet. ) Here is what the resulting HTML looks like... 4, on the next page, you can see what it looks like in the browser. Groovlets aren’t meant to be a replacement for a full-feature web framework. They are simply scripts that you can run on a web server as easily as you could from the command line. For an example of using Groovy within a web framework, see the chapters on Grails and Gorm.

Groovy overloads the << operator to the leftShift() method to accomplish this. getAt(1) ==> Groovy Even though languages is technically a List, you can make array-like calls to it as well. Groovy blurs the syntactic distinction between Lists and Arrays, allowing you to use the style that is most pleasing to you. each{lang -> println lang } ===> Java Groovy JRuby Iterating through a List is such a common activity that Groovy gives you a convenient way to do it. In the first example, you use the default name for the iterator variable, it.

2. Click New Remote Site. 3. Type Groovy in the Name field. 4. org/groovy/distributions/update/ in the URL field, and click OK. 37 G ROOVY + I NTELLI J IDEA 5. Check the Groovy repository, and click Finish. 6. Select Groovy under Select Features to Install, and click Next. 7. Read the agreement, and click Next. 8. Set the default location, and click Finish. 9. If you get a warning about the plug-in being unsigned, don’t worry. Click Install. Restart Eclipse, and you should be ready to use Groovy.

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