Groovy 2 Cookbook

Chapter 3. Using Groovy Language Features

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Searching strings with regular expressions
• Writing less verbose Java Beans with Groovy Beans
• Inheriting constructors in Groovy classes
• Adding the cloning functionality to Groovy Beans
• Defining code as data in Groovy
• Defining data structures as code in Groovy
• Implementing multiple inheritance in Groovy
• Adding a functionality to the existing Java/Groovy classes
• Defining type-checking rules for dynamic code
• Adding automatic logging to Groovy classes

Introduction

This chapter is all about what makes Groovy a very productive and fun programming language.

Groovy popularity builds on certain features of the language that are simply done right, such as closures or builders and are particularly ...