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Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers)
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by Scott Davis
Sales Rank: 96989
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List Price: $34.95
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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf January 11, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0978739299
ISBN-13: 978-0978739294
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
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.
About The Author
Scott Davis is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com. He is also an author and independent consultant. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from JEE to JSE to JME (sometimes all on the same project). He is the co-author of JBoss At Work (O'Reilly), and author of Google Maps API (Pragmatic Bookshelf) and GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
Customer Reviews & Comments
I absolutely love this book. I have no idea how it would read for a newbie, but as a developer well-versed in Java and very familiar with Groovy, this is an incredibly empowering book. I own and have studied, and liked, 4 other Groovy books, but since I am not using it full-time yet, I tend to forget just the stuff I would like to have at my fingertips just when I need it. Reading the other books is kind of like looking at a new car in the showroom: you see the features, but not much more. This book is like taking a test drive on a race course: you immediately experience the power of using it like it should be used. The subtitle for this book could be: How to do incredibly useful things *immediately* with Groovy. As the author says in chapter 6, he's not a sys admin, but Groovy makes it almost enjoyable to do all the sys tasks a developer has to handle all the time. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Will it teach you Groovy from the beginning, will it teach you the internals? I don't know, all I do know is that each page tells you how to do something you need to do, how to do it quickly and easily, and it tells you in a way that clarifies a lot of what I have read in other books. This is one of the most useful books I have ever read since K&R.
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Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers)
List Price: $34.95
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