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The Well-Grounded Java Developer
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The Well-Grounded Java Developer

by Benjamin Evans, Martijn Verburg
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
496 pages
16h 42m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix C. Installing alternative JVM languages

This appendix covers the download and installation instructions for the three JVM languages (Groovy, Scala, and Clojure) as well as the Groovy-based web framework (Grails) covered in chapters 8, 9, 10, and 13 respectively.

C.1. Groovy

Groovy is fairly simple to install, but if you’re unfamiliar with setting environment variables or you’re new to your particular operating system, you should find this guide helpful.

C.1.1. Downloading Groovy

First of all, go to http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download and download the latest stable version of Groovy. We used Groovy 1.8.6 for the examples, so we recommend downloading the groovy-binary-1.8.6.zip file. Then unzip the contents of the zip file you downloaded ...

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