DJHell .'s List: Practically Grooy at developerWorks

"Not long ago, developerWorks contributor Andrew Glover penned an article introducing Groovy, a new proposed standard language for the Java platform, as part of our alt.lang.jre series. Reader response was fantastic, so we've decided to launch this column to offer a practical guide to using this hot new technology. This first installment introduces a simple strategy for unit testing Java code with Groovy and JUnit."

"Both Ant and Maven rule the world of build processing, but XML is occasionally a less-than-expressive configuration format. In this second installment in his new series on the practical applications of Groovy, Andrew Glover introduces Groovy's builder utility, which makes it especially easy to combine Groovy with Ant and Maven for more expressive and controllable builds."

"Take your practical knowledge of Groovy one step further this month, as Andrew Glover shows you how to use GroovySql to build a simple data-reporting application. GroovySql combines closures and iterators to ease Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) programming by shifting the burden of resource management from you to the Groovy framework itself."

"Views are an integral part of MVC programming, which is itself a ubiquitous component of enterprise application development. In this installment of Practically Groovy, Andrew Glover shows how Groovy's template engine framework can simplify view programming and make your code more maintainable over time."