| Each recipe in Groovy Recipes begins with a concise code
example for a quick start, followed by in-depth explanation
in plain English. These recipes will get you to-to-speed in
a Groovy environment quickly.
You'll see how to speed up nearly every aspect of the
development process using Groovy. Groovy makes mundane file
management tasks like copying and renaming files trivial.
Reading and writing XML has never been easier with
XmlParsers and XmlBuilders. Breathe new life into Arrays,
Maps, and Lists with a number of convenience methods. But
Groovy does more than just ease traditional Java
development: it brings modern programming features to the
Java platform like closures, duck-typing, and
metaprogramming.
As an added bonus, this book also covers Grails. You'll be
amazed at how quickly you can have a first-class web
application up and running from ground zero. Grails includes
everything you need in a single zip file⎯a web server
(Jetty), a database (HSQLDB), Spring, Hibernate, even a
Groovy version of Ant called GANT. We cover everything from
getting a basic website in place to advanced features that
take you beyond HTML into the world of Web Services: REST,
JSON, Atom, Podcasting, and much much more.
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