Making Java Groovy: Foreword by Guillaume Laforge

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Why add Groovy to Java?

Figure 1.1. Groovy generates bytecodes for the Java Virtual Machine. Either compile them ahead of time or let the groovy command generate them from source.

Figure 1.2. Arrays and strings from a duck-typing point of view. Each is a collection with an append method. If that’s all we care about, they’re the same.

Chapter 2. Groovy by example

Figure 2.1. The Google Chart API “Hello, World” example

Figure 2.2. Apply collect to a map to convert it into a list, where each entry is transformed into a string.

Figure 2.3. The “Hello, World” Swing user interface, holding the image returned by Google Chart

Figure 2.4. Groovy Baseball is a web application that shows the results of MLB games on a given ...