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Making Java Groovy is a practical guide for developers who want to benefit from Groovy in their work with Java. It starts by introducing the key differences between Java and Groovy and how to use them to your advantage. Then, you`ll focus on the situations you face every day, like consuming and creating RESTful web services, working with databases and using the Spring framework. You`ll also explore the great Groovy tools for build processes, testing and deployment and learn how to write Groovy-based domain-specific languages that simplify Java development.
Part 1 Up to speed with Groovy
Chapter 1 Why add Groovy to Java?
Issues with Java
Groovy features that help Java
Java use cases and how Groovy helps
Chapter 2 Groovy by example
Hello, Groovy
Accessing Google Chart Tools
Groovy Baseball
Chapter 3 Code-level integration
Integrating Java with other languages
Executing Groovy scripts from Java
Chapter 4 Using Groovy features in Java
Treating POJOs like POGOs
Implementing operator overloading in Java
Making Java library classes better: the Groovy JDK
Cool AST transformations
Working with XML
Working with JSON data
Part 2 Groovy tools
Chapter 5 Build processes
The build challenge
The Java approach, part 1: Ant
Making Ant Groovy
The Java approach, part 2: Maven
Grapes and @Grab
The Gradle build system
Chapter 6 Testing Groovy and Java projects
Working with JUnit
Testing scripts written in Groovy
Testing classes in isolation
The future of testing: Spock
Part 3 Groovy in the real world
Chapter 7 The Spring framework
A Spring application
Refreshable beans
Spring AOP with Groovy beans
Inline scripted beans
Groovy with Java Config
Building beans with the Grails Bean Builder
Chapter 8 Database access
The Java approach, part 1: JDBC
The Groovy approach, part 1: groovy.sql.Sql
The Java approach, part 2: Hibernate and JPA
The Groovy approach, part 2: Groovy and GORM
Groovy and NoSQL databases
Chapter 9 RESTful web services
The REST architecture
The Java approach: JAX-RS
Implementing JAX-RS with Groovy
RESTful Clients
Hypermedia
Other Groovy approaches
Chapter 10 Building and testing web applications
Groovy servlets and Servlet Category
Easy server-side development with groovlets
Unit- and integration-testing web components
Grails: the Groovy “killer app” ISBN - 9789351194019
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Pages : 368
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