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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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10.7 Using Java Classes from Groovy

Using Java classes from Groovy is simple and direct. If the Java classes we want to use are part of the JDK, we import the classes or their packages in Groovy just like in Java. By default Groovy imports a number of packages and classes (see Section 2.1, From Java to Groovy), so if the class we want to use is imported already (such as ​java.util.Date​), then we just use it—no import is needed.

If we want to use one of our own Java classes, or classes that are not part of the standard JDK, we can import them in Groovy just like we would in Java. Make sure to import the necessary packages or classes, or refer to the classes by their fully qualified names. When running ​groovy​, specify the path to the ​ ...

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