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The Cucumber for Java Book
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The Cucumber for Java Book

by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Groovy

Our favorite source of truth has this to say about Groovy:[95]

Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform. It is a dynamic language with features similar to those of Python, Ruby, Perl, and Smalltalk. It can be used as a scripting language for the Java Platform, is dynamically compiled to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bytecode, and interoperates with other Java code and libraries. Groovy uses a Java-like curly-bracket syntax. Most Java code is also syntactically valid Groovy.

So, Groovy is quite like Java, but it has some of the ease-of-use features more commonly found in languages (often used for scripting) like Ruby. What’s more, Groovy (like other JVM languages) has access to any library written in any ...

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