A crash overview of groovy

Abstract

Groovy is "an agile dynamic language for the Java 2 Platform" [1] that attempts to combine the convenience of scripting with the functionality of Java. Groovy has "many of the features that people like so much in languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax" [1]. One reason for Java's popularity as a programming language is the Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) [11]. Each API is a set of related classes that are useful to programmers in Java, similar in concept to the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). The Java APIs are available to Groovy programmers with simplified script-like syntax.