David Black: Groovy

Eclipse + Groovy = Monkey?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:10:07 GMT

Two of my favorite things have come together. Groovy Monkey is a dynamic scripting tool for the Eclipse Platform that enables you to automate tasks, explore the Eclipse API and engage in rapid prototyping. I've wanted something for ages that allows me to test stuff out and rapidly prototype tooling.

Groovy 1.0 is available

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:11:28 GMT

Groovy 1.0 has been released!

James Gosling and Groovy

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:00:23 GMT

According to Guillame LaForge, who is the Groovy project lead, James Gosling has been using Groovy in some projects at Sun, and he likes it very much. How cool is that?! I am really looking forward to the publication of the first Groovy book, and the release of the first Groovy JSR release candidate, and hopefully before too long the big 1.0 ...

Groovy testing in action

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:44:07 GMT

One of Groovys key use cases is unit testing. Groovy has the potential to save us all a lot of time (and typing) and encourage us to write more test cases than we are now, just because its so quick to do powerful stuff. With the JSR work now quite advanced, and the first book, Groovy in Action, due out in November, its almost time to seriously consider ditching Java completely for unit testing.

Agila & Groovy

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:11:40 GMT

The BPM engine in Apache Agila now supports Groovy nodes, which is really neat as you can use Groovy to develop custom tasks for your workflows. You get all the usual benefits of Groovy of course, and in particular you can use Groovy markup builders to generate the form/page for the task that the HTTPRenderer (returned by the TaskActivity) generates.

In the process definition XML, the following syntax clues Agila into the fact that the node is a Groovy script:

<node id="3" type="activity" class="groovy:node/ExampleGroovyTask.groovy" display_name="Example Groovy Task">

There is an example Groovy task at

src/test-resources/node/ExampleGroovyTask.groovy

under the bpm module that is both Task and Renderer etc. to get you started.

Thanks to Chris Lim for taking a look at this contribution and commiting it so quickly.

Groovy JSR

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:31:23 GMT

Way to go James, the Groovy JSR-241 has been approved. Only a matter of time before its offically Groovy. Yeah, baby, yeah.