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Programming Groovy 2
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Programming Groovy 2

by Venkat Subramaniam
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
370 pages
8h 27m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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10.4 Intermixing Groovy and Java with Joint Compilation

If the Groovy classes are precompiled, then we can use the ​.class​ files or JARs readily from Java. Java sees no difference between the bytecode from Java and Groovy; we’ll have to add the Groovy JAR (discussed earlier) in our ​classpath​, much like how we’ll have JARs for Spring, Hibernate, or other frameworks/libraries we use.

What if we have Groovy source code instead of bytecode? Remember, when our Java class depends on other Java classes, ​javac​ will compile any Java classes it deems necessary if it does not find their bytecode. However, ​javac​ does not extend that kindness to Groovy. Fortunately, ​groovyc​ supports ​joint compilation​. When we compile Groovy code, it determines ...

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