Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java

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作者：Scott Davis
出版日期：January 11, 2008
出版社：其它
页数：250
ISBN：ISBN-10: 0978739299 ISBN-13: 978-0978739294
文件格式：PDF


Product Description
Each recipe in Groovy Recipesbegins with a concise code example for a quick start, followed byin-depth explanation in plain English. These recipes will get youto-to-speed in a Groovy environment quickly.You’ll see how to speed upnearly every aspect of the development process using Groovy. Groovymakes mundane file management tasks like copying and renaming filestrivial. Reading and writing XML has never been easier with XmlParsersand XmlBuilders. Breathe new life into Arrays, Maps, and Lists with anumber of convenience methods. But Groovy does more than just easetraditional Java development: it brings modern programming features tothe Java platform like closures, duck-typing, and metaprogramming.As an added bonus, this book also covers Grails. You’ll be amazedat how quickly you can have a first-class web application up andrunning from ground zero. Grails includes everything you need in asingle zip file⎯a web server (Jetty), a database (HSQLDB), Spring,Hibernate, even a Groovy version of Ant called GANT. We covereverything from getting a basic website in place to advanced featuresthat 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 anauthor and independent consultant. He is passionate about open sourcesolutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Javaplatforms, 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 GoogleMaps API (Pragmatic Bookshelf) and GIS for Web Developers: Adding Whereto Your Web Applications (Pragmatic Bookshelf).