Programming Groovy 2

What’s in This Book?

This book is about programming with Groovy; it is aimed at Java programmers who already know the JDK well but are interested in learning the Groovy language and its dynamic capabilities. Throughout this book we’ll explore the Groovy language’s features with many practical examples. The objective is to make programmers quickly productive with this interesting and powerful language.

The rest of this book is organized into four parts, as follows:

In the chapters in Part I, “Beginning Groovy,” we focus on the whys and whats of Groovy—the fundamentals that’ll help us get comfortable with general programming in Groovy. This book is for experienced Java programmers, so we won’t spend any time with programming basics, like what ...