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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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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).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A veritable gold mine of useful Groovy nuggets. This book rocks.,
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This review is from: Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback)
Having already seen many of his videocasts after listening to the Grailspodcast, I consider Scott to be a like a Vincent Van Gogh of the tech world. A Master.
I've read Groovy in Action, a more in depth reference (Groovy in Action 2 will be out later this year too) and Programming Groovy, both fantastic Groovy books. But I actually like this one the best. It's definitely the book I'd turn to first when I need an example to jog my memory. Worthy of the pragmatic badge as always. It's an awesome read. Great if you want to learn Groovy in a hurry and like learning from examples. The book distills things into more clear, concise memorable chunks. It's well cross-referenced and the format make it easy to read in a non-linear fashion if you want to. The book consists of twelve chapters: --1 Introduction --2 Getting Started: Installing & Running Groovy, Groovy Shell/Console, IDE support. There is good advice on Mac/Unix/Windows installs. --- The book only covers binary rather than source versions. It advises the use symlinks for Unix & derivatives, which is best way to go. --3 New to Groovy: covers syntax - bringing the Java developer up to speed --4 Java and Groovy Integration - includes good discussion on joint compilation --5 Groovy from the command line - This is a superb chapter - material not covered in a lot of the books. --6 File Tricks - Listing Files/Directories, Writing to files, Moving, Renaming files, AntBuilder etc --7 Parsing XML : XMLParser, XML Slurper comparison --8 Writing XML : MarkupBuilder & StreamingMarkupBuilder --9 WebServices : Another fantastic chapter : Takes you through HTTP, SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, Atom/RSS, Parsing search engine results as XML -10 Metaprogramming : Really good chapter. Good for getting your head around Categories, Expandos & ExpandoMetaClass (Venkat's book goes into more detail here - but this is a good second) -11 Working with Grails : A whirlwind tour of Grails. - A similar approach was taken in Groovy in Action at the end.. --- Scott informed me he is actually working on a second edition of a Grails PDF book with Jason Rudolph for InfoQ too that is in the finals stages of production. So expect this to be another great resource. -12 Grails & Web Services : Returning XML, JSON, Excel. Setting up RSS (for podcasts) & Atom Feeds - Pretty good. But worst chapter of book for me. Didn't like the way some of the code was laid out. --- I prefer to see the whole thing at once, not snippets with bits missing, then incrementally expanded later. There are a few errors: -P42 A size that should have returned 4 not 5 as a result. -P79 Space missing between words. P107 Space missing between words. P215 Mentions customising scaffolding to facilitate adding a timestamp to a record in Grails - which Grails automatically does by adding a couple of appropriately named properties. Google on "Grails GORM Events". P224 Graeme Rocher confirmed Grails now supports M-M relationships in the scaffolding. Mike Kimsal, the guy behind Groovymag blogged about a solution a while back too. P236 There is a paragraph repeated twice. Scott also writes for IBM Developerworks (Practically Groovy & Mastering Grails series).
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A rehash of the Groovy website,
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This review is from: Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback)
This book is readable. However, it doesn't cover any content beyond that presented on the Groovy website (http://groovy.codehaus.org/Documentation) - it has just been rewritten into a "The Perl Cookbook" style. This isn't really the right approach in my opinion (excepting the obvious fact that the information is free on the web) for a book about a language covering concepts such as closures that will be new to some programmers - this needs real examples, not toy one liners so show the benefits of reuse. I haven't read "Groovy in Action" but if "Spring in Action" is the benchmark for that series I would choose that every time over this book. Think carefully.
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Excellent Resource,
This review is from: Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers) (Paperback)
This book needs to be next to your keyboard if you are writing Groovy programs
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