Agile Web Development with Groovy and Grails

Carol McDonald, Java Architect

Objective

Overview of theGrails Web Platform

Groovy Overview

What is Groovy?

A dynamic language written for the JVM

Generates byte code

Java like syntax

Easy learning curve for Java developers

Seamless integration with Java

A Groovy object is a Java Object

Groovy application can create Java objects

Java objects can create Groovy objects

A Valid Java Program

import java.util.*;

public class Erase {

private List filterLongerThan(List strings, int length) {

List result = new ArrayList();

for (String n: strings)

if (n.length()