Speakers
- Ben Alex
- Michael Alford
- Andres Almiray
- Scott Andrews
- Alex Antonov
- Alef Arendsen
- Mattias Arthursson
- Shay Banon
- Antranig Basman
- Chris Beams
- Burt Beckwith
- Imad Bernoussi
- Jonas Boner
- Jeff Brown
- Kent Brown
- Dennis Callaghan
- Isaac Christoffersen
- Andy Clement
- Christophe Coenraets
- Adrian Colyer
- Michael Cote
- Hamlet D'Arcy
- Scott Davis
- Hans Dockter
- Keith Donald
- Christian Dupuis
- Justin Edelson
- Mike Esler
- Mike Evans
- Danno Ferrin
- Robert Fischer
- Adam Fitzgerald
- Andrew Glover
- Jeremy Grelle
- Filip Hanik
- Rob Harrop
- Jennifer Hickey
- Pete Higgins
- Hal Hildebrand
- Al Hilwa
- Juergen Hoeller
- Jim Jagielski
- Steve Jin
- Rod Johnson
- Mike Keith
- Jack Kennedy
- Mik Kersten
- Paul King
- Dave Klein
- Mark Kralj-Taylor
- Guillaume LaForge
- Costin Leau
- Scott Leberknight
- Charles Lee
- John Lewis
- Patrick Linskey
- Martin Lippert
- Mat Lowery
- Wayne Lund
- Randy MacBlane
- Andi Mann
- Maudrit Martinez
- Ross Mason
- Tom McCuch
- Richard McDougall
- Marty Messer
- Russell Miles
- Jim Moore
- Ryan Morgan
- Billy Newport
- John Newton
- Glyn Normington
- Brian Oliver
- Pratik Patel
- Prasad Pimplaskar
- Mark Pollack
- Alexandru Popescu
- Arjen Poutsma
- Yan Pujante
- Cameron Purdy
- Mark Richards
- Thomas Risberg
- Jared Rodriguez
- John Rymer
- Vipul Savjani
- Stefan Schmidt
- Mark Schwartz
- Nati Shalom
- Ken Sipe
- Brian Sletten
- Javier Soltero
- Randy Stafford
- Mike Stenhouse
- Matt Stine
- Rossen Stoyanchev
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Dave Syer
- Matthew Taylor
- Mark Thomas
- Greg Turnquist
- Thomas Van de Velde
- Erwin Vervaet
- Scott Vlaminck
- Alexander von Zitzewitz
- Chris Wall
- Craig Walls
- Lucas Ward
- Kevin Whinnery
- David Winterfeldt
- Chip Witt
- Eberhard Wolff
- Aaron Zeckoski
- Oleg Zhurakousky
- Ari Zilka
- Kris Zyp
Guillaume LaForge
Head of Groovy Development for SpringSource
Blog
Final release of Groovy 1.7!
Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM! After two betas and two release candidates, we're are happy to d more »Release train: Grails 1.1.2, Groovy 1.6.6 and 1.7-RC-1, as well as Gaelyk 0.3.2
Posted Friday, November 27, 2009
Big release days! Yeste more »Devoxx presentation on Google App Engine, Groovy and Gaelyk
Posted Friday, November 20, 2009
I'm back from Devoxx, where I had a very pleasant stay, nice discussions with many attendees and speakers, and it's always a great opportunity to meet friends you haven't seen in a while! And this time, I was there with my friend Patrick more »Presentations
Design your own Domain Specific Language
Understanding the domain within which customers evolve is a key factor in the success of a project. From this domain and its wealth of concepts, as software developers and architects, we can derive a design that is aimed at solving problems encountered in more »Design your own Domain Specific Language
By Guillaume LaForge
Understanding the domain within which customers evolve is a key factor in the success of a project. From this domain and its wealth of concepts, as software developers and architects, we can derive a design that is aimed at solving problems encountered in the day-to-day business.
So far, we mostly solved these brainteasers with computer science paradigms like Object-Oriented Programming, n-tier architectures, or with tools such as rules engines to stay close to the domain at hand. However, with the advent of dynamic languages, a new era has come to let you create languages taylored to a given domain of knowledge, allowing you to share a common methaphore of understanding between developers and subject matter experts.
Groovy, the popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM, offers a lot of features that allow you to create embedded Domain-Specific Languages. Closures, metaprogramming, operator overloading, named arguments, a more concise and expressive syntax, are elements of Groovy you can take advantage of to create your own mini derived language.
The purpose of this presentation is to show how to write such DSLs in Groovy, discovering in turn those various techniques, with pratical and concrete examples taken from real-life projects leveraging Groovy DSLs.
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"... a clear and detailed exposition of what is groovy about Groovy. I'm glad to have it on my bookshelf."
--From the Foreword by James GoslingGroovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. To bring you Groovy in Action, Manning again went to the source by working with a team of expert authors including both members and the Manager of the Groovy Project team. The result is the true definitive guide to the new Groovy language.
Groovy in Action introduces Groovy by example, presenting lots of reusable code while explaining the underlying concepts. Java developers new to Groovy find a smooth transition into the dynamic programming world. Groovy experts gain a solid reference that challenges them to explore Groovy deeply and creatively.
Because Groovy is so new, most readers will be learning it from scratch. Groovy in Action quickly moves through the Groovy basics, including:
* Simple and collective Groovy data types
* Working with Closures and Groovy Control Structures
* Dynamic Object Orientation, Groovy styleReaders are presented with rich and detailed examples illustrating Groovy's enhancements to Java, including
* How to Work with Builders and the GDK
* Database programming with GroovyGroovy in Action then demonstrates how to Integrate Groovy with XML, and provides,
* Tips and Tricks
* Unit Testing and Build Support
* Groovy on WindowsAn additional bonus is a chapter dedicated to Grails, the Groovy Web Application Framework.