Developing Essbase Applications

318  •  Developing Essbase Applications: Advanced Techniques for Finance and IT Professionals

ose who know Java will be impressed with the simplicity here. We have created no

classes and no main method. Groovy allows us to get right down to business and does

that overhead work for us at runtime. is allows us to focus on the code that does the

stu we want done.

Groovy is an extension of Java that removes many of the more tedious elements of Java programming while remain-

ing highly compatible with Java’s native syntax. When used for scripting, the Groovy runtime identifies the code to be

executed, wraps it with a main method and a class declaration, compiles it, executes it, then deletes the files created

during the process. All of this happens ...