Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition

Groovy

Groovy, like Clojure, is designed for the JVM. It was written to enable features like closures and dynamic typing from popular languages like Python and Ruby to be used by Java developers. It uses a Java-like syntax, making it familiar to those programmers. It can be compiled into standard Java bytecode and used within any Java project. It can also be used dynamically for scripting, templating, or writing unit tests.

To use Groovy on Ubuntu, you must first install a JVM. Then, you need the package groovy. You can then run Groovy code in a shell by entering groovysh at the command line, in an interactive console by entering groovyConsole, or run a specific Groovy script by entering the script file’s name at the command line prefaced by ...