I previously blogged on using JavaScript in Java. The same Java Specification Request that allows for JavaScript in Java, JSR 223 (“Scripting for the Java Platform”), allows for including other ...

The Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) Groovy team recently announced the release of Groovy 4.0.0, the latest version of the open source, general-purpose programming language for the Java Virtual ...

Groovy 3 tries to close some of the feature gaps that have opened up with recent versions of Java New control flow features include do-while and the enhanced for loop Java-style Lambda Expressions ...

For the past several months, I have been somewhat of a Groovy evangelist and have been touting the virtues of Groovy to Java developer colleagues. Recently, a colleague asked if Groovy has a slick way ...

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Using the Java programming language, developers have difficulty making Java applications scale linearly. Beyond the initial handful of processors, every time you add a new processor to your system, ...

Java-compatible language Groovy has re-entered the top 20 most popular languages, according to Tiobe's search engine-based rankings. Groovy, which came to life in 2007, hasn't been a top-20 language ...

Project lead Guillaume Laforge explains what's in store for Groovy, and Grails lead Graeme Roche outlines that related framework's future Groovy is a popular, open source, dynamic language ...