Re: Anyone else using Groovy?

> Hi All,
>
> So I tried out Groovy again last night.  I'd tried it before,
> somewhere around the 1.0 release, and wrote it off at that time for
> Stripes development (and JPA/hibernate development too) due to the
> lack of support for generics and annotations - which are fairly
> critical to making programming in Stripes easy and fun.  Anyway I
> figured it was time to check back in and see what progress the Groovy
> devs have made, and I have to say I'm really impressed!
>
> The Groovy 1.5 release supports annotations and generics (and enums
> and other things too) well enough that it's easy to start writing
> ActionBeans in Stripes.  As a challenge I took our nastiest bean
> (essentially an agglomeration of all the admin actions in our
> application - it's only ever seen/used by developers) with about 20
> different handlers in it and converted it to Groovy.  It went
> surprisingly well, and cut down on quite a bit of junk - most
> noticably getting rid of 2-3 pages of getter/setter methods.  But it
> also allowed me to tidy up in other places as I tried out some of the
> groovy idioms like using closures to iterate over lists.
>
> Groovy 1.5 also contains a "joint compiler" called groovyc which is
> essentially a drop in replacement for javac that compiles both groovy
> and java at the same time.  As a result it took me about 5 minutes to
> modify our build process to include groovy source.  And to give me
> favorite IDE a plug, the IntelliJ Groovy plugin is excellent.  It's
> not quite as good as writing Java yet, but it's close enough and
> completion works 99% of the time.
>
> So is anyone else on the list using groovy to write ActionBeans or
> other things?  If you're not, I'd encourage you to check it out.  I
> think now that it supports the major Java 5 features it's a great
> language to work in.
>
> -t
>
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