Update (8/8/09): When I was originally comparing Jruby & Groovy, I was under the impression that Jruby was a beta-quality product, and its cryptic error messages seemed to prove this point. After a bit more research, I learned that Jruby is a robust and high-quality Ruby implementation and that all dynamic languages can give you… [Read more…]
February 15, 2008
I am about to finish my first non-trivial application written in Groovy (a medium-sized suite of administrative scripts), and so far I’m pretty happy with the language. I thought I would share some of my notes in case anyone else is considering the language for a similar application. Development Environment One nice thing about Groovy… [Read more…]
February 14, 2008
I’ve been using the Groovy programming language a lot lately at work to programmatically interact with systems that have Java interfaces. Simply put, it’s great, and it really makes my job as a sysadmin of Java middleware easier. Also, if you’ve tried other Java-based scripting languages like Jython in the past but have been disappointed… [Read more…]
November 13, 2008
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