What’s Groovy?
Merriam-Webster defines groovy as “marvelous, wonderful, excellent, hip, trendy.” The Groovy language is all of that—it’s lightweight, low-ceremony, dynamic, object-oriented, and runs on the JVM. Groovy is open sourced under the Apache License, version 2.0. It derives strength from various languages, such as Smalltalk, Python, and Ruby, while retaining a syntax familiar to Java programmers. Groovy compiles into Java bytecode and extends the Java API and libraries. It runs on Java 1.5 and newer. For deployment, all we need is a Groovy Java archive (JAR) in addition to the regular Java stuff, and we’re all set.
Groovy is a “language that has been reborn several times.”[1] James Strachan and Bob McWhirter started it in 2003, and ...
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