Groovy 1.1-beta-2 with contributions from JetBrains and JBoss
The Groovy team is pleased to announce the release of Groovy 1.1-beta-2, yet another step on our aggressive roadmap towards the release of Groovy 1.1 in October.
For this release, I would like especially to highlight two key contributions to the project:
- First of all, after we’ve added Java 5 annotation support in Groovy 1.1-beta-1, this time, it was generics’ turn. Thanks to the help of some JBoss developers who’ve integrated Groovy in JBoss Seam, we’ve been able to test our support for annotations and generics, and to make sure we would release a quality milestone to our users. Groovy is the first alternative dynamic language for the JVM that supports annotations and generics, so that you can integrate Groovy with any Enterprise application frameworks like EJB 3 / JPA, JBoss Seam, Google Guice, Spring, etc.
- Secondly, I’m very happy to report the contribution of JetBrains to the development of Groovy. While working on the IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Groovy and Grails, the talentuous JetBrains team provided us with a joint Java/Groovy compiler! No more nightmare to cleanly separate Java and Groovy code to avoid cyclic references and tedious build configuration, you can now use the Groovyc compiler to compile both Groovy and Java sources in a single step.
Apart from those two great contributions that we have integrated in the project, we’ve worked on many other areas since the release of the first beta:
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