I previously blogged on using JavaScript in Java. The same Java Specification Request that allows for JavaScript in Java, JSR 223 (“Scripting for the Java Platform”), allows for including other ...

The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Groovy team recently announced the release of Groovy 4.0.0, the latest version of the open source, general-purpose programming language for the Java Virtual ...

Groovy 3 tries to close some of the feature gaps that have opened up with recent versions of Java New control flow features include do-while and the enhanced for loop Java-style Lambda Expressions ...

I mostly use Groovy for scripting and many of my scripting needs require the ability to navigate directory structures. In writing such scripts, it is helpful to know which properties are available out ...

Groovy is a relatively new scripting language that resembles Java, it is built on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The main developers are James Strachan and Bob McWhirter. Groovy is a new agile ...

Groovy 4 has been released with improvements including a new query language and support for switch expressions. The developers describe it as being designed for JDK8+ with much improved JPMS support.

If you want to get CTOs in a lather, ask them which programming language they recommend to build an advanced Web site. Jon Williams, CTO of Flat World Knowledge, recently spawned a red-hot thread on ...

Project lead Guillaume Laforge explains what's in store for Groovy, and Grails lead Graeme Roche outlines that related framework's future Groovy is a popular, open source, dynamic language ...