Learning Groovy 3: Java-Based Dynamic Scripting

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Adam L. DavisLearning Groovy 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5058-7_10

10. Groovy GPars

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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GPars¹ is an open source project to bring many concurrency abstractions to Java and/or Groovy. It was bundled in Groovy for a short time and then later pulled out.

It includes parallel map/reduce, Actors, Dataflow, and many other concurrency models. Although any concurrency library made for Java, such as RxJava, Project Reactor, or Akka, can be used with Groovy, GPars was made with Groovy specifically in mind.

Getting Started

To get started you first need to include GPars in your project. For example, in a Gradle build file, add the following to your dependencies block :

compile "org.codehaus.gpars:gpars:1.2.1" ...