Releases The first release candidate of Spring Boot is out, including its lean Groovy support Grain releases are now available in Maven Central Andrés Almiray released version 0.3.0 of his Gipsy AST transformation for simplifying usage of the service provider interface system Articles Pivotal posted Guillaume Laforge’s article on the 3 million downloads of Groovy last year and his analysis Kyle Boon describes how to use meta-annotations to reduce boilerplate code GVM, the Groovy enVironment Manager, is featured on the methods and tools website, thanks to an article from Marco Vermeulen At SpringOne2GX 2013, Ryan Vanderwerf explains how to create and deploy a Grails application on AWS VPC using various services such as RDS, S3, autoscaling, S3FS, EBS, etc. Read more...

Back in 2012, I was pretty happy and proud to see Groovy being used more and more, and reaching 1.7 million downloads in 2012. But the competition with other alternative language, I was personally not sure how those figures would evolve over the course of 2013. Fortunately, thanks to the hard work of the Groovy core development team and the friendly community and ecosystem, I’m happy to report an impressive ongoing growth for 2013: Groovy crosses the 3 million downloads a year mark! Read more...

We all know the Groovy community is super active, buzzing with useful projects in the ecosystem, but it’s always interesting to see how our projects evolve in terms of usage. Guillaume Laforge, project lead of Groovy, computed some download statistics for Groovy, and showed Groovy almost doubled its downloads, from 1.7 million downloads in 2012 up to 3 million downloads in 2013! All that, thanks to the hard work of the Groovy core team and the friendly and supportive community. Read more...

Here’s the fourth edition of the Groovy Weekly column! The holidays are gone, and tons of news are here for your consumption. Releases Jim Northrop released Caelyf 1.1.2, the lightweight Groovy web toolkit for Cloud Foundry Articles Guillaume Laforge wrote a small tutorial on how to deploy a Ratpack application to Cloud Foundry, with a dedicated buildpack developed by Ben Hale Cédric Champeau blogs about the upcoming closure parameter type inference for Groovy Guillaume Laforge shares the notes of the last Groovy developer meeting in London prior to the Groovy Grails eXchance conference, covering various topics about the roadmap of Groovy 2. Read more...

Happy New Year best wishes are still flowing around, and new year resolutions have been sealed, but despite the busy times and good moments spent with our families, the Groovy ecosystem is still abuzz with news! You’d think it’d be a quiet third edition of the Groovy Weekly column, but no, we’ve all been busy with Groovy stuff! So what’s in store? Releases Ratpack 0.9.0 has been released Peter Ledbrook published version 0. Read more...

For the second Groovy Weekly column, on the eve of a new year, I’d like to wish you a very Groovy year, and share with you the following links, hoping you’ll have some spare time to look into them while you’re celebrating. Releases A new project appeared on the Groovy ecosystem radar: Grain, announced by Victor Vlasenko on the Groovy mailing-list. Grain is a promising lightweight and yet powerful static website generator for Groovy which purpose is to make demanding site implementation an intuitive and enjoyable. Read more...

Welcome to the Groovy Weekly news brief! As the name implies, I’m going to try to make regular (in theory on a weekly basis) column of all the interesting news, presentations, code snippets, events, conferences related to the Groovy ecosystem. And as a Christmas present, here’s the first issue! Your feedback is important, and we’d be happy to hear about your thoughts on a regular column about Groovy related news: what are your expectations, what you’d like to hear about, what news bits are of higher interest to you, how you would like this information to be delivered, etc. Read more...

This is with great pleasure that the Groovy team is announcing today the release of Groovy 2.2, the latest version of the Groovy programming language. Groovy 2.2 features: Implicit closure coercion @Memoized AST transformation for methods Define base script classes with an annotation New DelegatingScript base class for scripts New @Log variant for the Log4j2 logging framework @DelegatesTo with generics type tokens Precompiled type checking extensions Groovysh enhancements Bintray’s JCenter repository OSGi manifests for the “invoke dynamic” JARs And other minor bug fixes, enhancements and performance improvements You can read more detailed release notes as well as have a look at all the JIRA issues fixed. Read more...

Following up my presentations from JAX London, I was interviewed about Groovy for JAXenter, with questions about what Groovy brings to Java developers, the recent surge in popularity as Groovy broke the TIOBE index top 20 languages, my favorite projects in the Groovy ecosystem.

Last week, I was in London for the JAX London 2013 conference. I gave a presentation on what makes the Groovy programming language… groovy! It’s essentially an introduction to Groovy, its language constructs, its ecosystem, etc. It’s not focusing particularly on new features or on metaprogramming, but tries to bring the audience to the boilerplate killer that is Groovy. I’ve posted the slides on SpeakerDeck and I embed them below: Read more...