Foreword to the Second Edition
As the saying goes, time flies. In the first edition of this book, Venkat guided you through all the nice features of Groovy 1.5 and turned you into a proficient “Groovy-ist,” but it’s now time to discover what Groovy 2 has in store. Of course, your favorite author has you covered!
The Groovy team worked on three major themes for the 2.0 version. First of all, we brought Groovy in line with JDK 7: we added the Java 7 “Project Coin” syntax enhancements, and we also powered Groovy’s runtime with the “invoke dynamic” bytecode instruction and APIs under the hood. That way, you can use the latest syntax additions in Groovy even on older JDKs, but by running JDK 7 you’ll benefit from performance improvements.
Secondly, ...
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