September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 54m
English
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List of Listings
Chapter 1. Why add Groovy to Java?
Listing 1.1. Sorting strings using the Collections.sort method
Listing 1.2. A Java class to sort strings
Listing 1.3. A Java class representing a task
Listing 1.4. A Spock test that checks each Java sorting method
Chapter 2. Groovy by example
Listing 2.1. Building a Swing UI 3D pie chart using Google Chart
Listing 2.2. Stadium.groovy: a POGO to hold stadium information
Listing 2.3. Geocoder.groovy, which uses the Google geocoder to compute lat and lng
Listing 2.4. populate_stadium_data.groovy
Listing 2.5. A portion of GetGameData, showing the attributes and initialization
Listing 2.6. boxscore.xml: the box score from game 4 of the 2007 World Series
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