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Scripting in Java:
 Languages, Frameworks, and Patterns
  by Dejan Bosanac
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: August 31, 2007 (est.)
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-32193-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-32193-0
eText ISBN-10: 0-321-50933-1
eText ISBN-13: 978-0-321-50933-8
Pages: 432

Groovy 1.5 has been released. It’s practically 1.1 release, but due to volume of changes introduced by the release it has been re-branded. Some of the most important features of the new Groovy version are Java 5 features, such as:

• Annotations
• Enums
• Static Imports
• Generics

but there are a lot more new features.

The official release note can be found here.
You can also find an excellent introductory article by Guillaume Laforge on InfoQ

News

• November 13, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 10 demonstrating the Web Scripting Framework are available for download. Also, as this is the last chapter of the book you can download the archive containing code samples for all chapters from here. Now that I finally sorted out all these examples, it’s time to move on with new projects and resources related to the topic, so stay tuned.

• October 26, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 7 demonstrating Practical scripting in Java are available for download. Enjoy.

• October 24, 2007

  I will be speaking on Scripting with balance at Irish Java Technology Conference in Dublin (IJTC) on November 9th, 2007. The full announcement could be found here

• October 12, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 6 demonstrating Bean Scripting Framework are available for download. Enjoy.

• October 5, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 5 demonstrating Groovy modules and advanced programming techniques are available for download. Enjoy.

• September 21, 2007

  java.net has published an article titled Scripting with Balance in Design and Performance

• September 18, 2007

  I will be speaking on Scripting in Java in Novi Sad on September 19th, 2007. The full announcement could be found here (in Serbian)

• September 5, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 4 demonstrating Groovy syntax and basic features are available for download. Enjoy.

• August 25, 2007

  Code samples for Chapter 3 are available for download

• August 2, 2007

  JavaWorld published the second excerpt from Chapter 1.

Community

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• February 19, 2008
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