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Paperback: 249 pages
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (18 Feb 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0978739299
ISBN-13: 978-0978739294
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 18.8 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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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.

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).

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2.0 out of 5 stars A rehash of the Groovy website, 22 May 2008

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, 6 Mar 2008

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This book needs to be next to your keyboard if you are writing Groovy programs

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