Learning Groovy 3: Java-Based Dynamic Scripting

© Adam L. Davis 2019

Adam L. DavisLearning Groovy 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5058-7_11

11. Groovy Awesomeness

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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New York, NY, USA

 

This short chapter introduces various useful frameworks within the Groovy ecosystem. Some of these will be described more fully in later chapters.

Web and UI Frameworks

The following are web and user interface frameworks that are built on top of Groovy or where Groovy is supported.

Grails¹

A web framework inspired by Ruby on Rails. It has at least 800 plugins and uses convention over configuration approach.

Micronaut²

A newer framework for building microservices, serverless applications, or command-line applications with a small memory footprint and fast start-up speed with compile-time annotation processing. ...