Book description
Java and Groovy go together like ham and eggs, and this book is a great opportunity to learn how to exploit Groovy 2 to the full. Packed with recipes, both intermediate and advanced, it’s a great way to speed up and modernize your programming.
- Simple and more advanced recipes to cover a broad number of topics and challenges
- With scores of practical examples, this book will help you to build efficient, flexible, and well-integrated systems
- Solve everyday programming problems with the elegance and simplicity of Groovy 2
In Detail
Get up to speed with Groovy, a language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. This book will show you the powerful features of Groovy 2 applied to real-world scenarios and how the dynamic nature of the language makes it very simple to tackle problems that would otherwise require hours or days of research and implementation.
Groovy 2 Cookbook contains a vast number of recipes covering many facets of today's programming landscape. From language-specific topics such as closures and metaprogramming, to more advanced applications of Groovy flexibility such as DSL and testing techniques, this book gives you quick solutions to everyday problems.
The recipes in this book start from the basics of installing Groovy and running your first scripts and continue with progressively more advanced examples that will help you to take advantage of the language's amazing features.
Packed with hundreds of tried-and-true Groovy recipes, Groovy 2 Cookbook includes code segments covering many specialized APIs to work with files and collections, manipulate XML, work with REST services and JSON, create asynchronous tasks, and more. But Groovy does more than just ease traditional Java development: it brings modern programming features to the Java platform like closures, duck-typing, and metaprogramming.
In this new book, you'll find code examples that you can use in your projects right away along with a discussion about how and why the solution works. Focusing on what's useful and tricky, Groovy 2 Cookbook offers a wealth of useful code for all Java and Groovy programmers, not just advanced practitioners.
Table of contents
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Groovy 2 Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Groovy 2 Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Getting Started with Groovy
- Introduction
- Installing Groovy on Windows
- Installing Groovy on Linux and OS X
- Executing Groovy code from the command line
- Using Groovy as a command-line text file editor
- Using Groovy to start a server on the command line
- Running Groovy with invokedynamic support
- Building Groovy from source
- Managing multiple Groovy installations on Linux
- Using groovysh to try out Groovy commands
- Starting groovyConsole to execute Groovy snippets
- Configuring Groovy in Eclipse
- Configuring Groovy in IntelliJ IDEA
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2. Using Groovy Ecosystem
- Introduction
- Using Java classes from Groovy
- Embedding Groovy into Java
- Compiling Groovy code
- Simplifying dependency management with Grape
- Integrating Groovy into the build process using Ant
- Integrating Groovy into the build process using Maven
- Integrating Groovy into the build process using Gradle
- Generating documentation for Groovy code
- Checking Groovy code's quality with CodeNarc
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3. Using Groovy Language Features
- Introduction
- Searching strings with regular expressions
- Writing less verbose Java Beans with Groovy Beans
- Inheriting constructors in Groovy classes
- Adding the cloning functionality to Groovy Beans
- Defining code as data in Groovy
- Defining data structures as code in Groovy
- Implementing multiple inheritance in Groovy
- Adding a functionality to the existing Java/Groovy classes
- Defining type-checking rules for dynamic code
- Adding automatic logging to Groovy classes
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4. Working with Files in Groovy
- Introduction
- Reading from a file
- Reading a text file line by line
- Processing every word in a text file
- Writing to a file
- Replacing tabs with spaces in a text file
- Filtering a text file's content
- Deleting a file or directory
- Walking through a directory recursively
- Searching for files
- Changing file attributes on Windows
- Reading data from a ZIP file
- Reading an Excel file
- Extracting data from a PDF
- 5. Working with XML in Groovy
- 6. Working with JSON in Groovy
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7. Working with Databases in Groovy
- Introduction
- Creating a database table
- Connecting to an SQL database
- Querying an SQL database
- Modifying data in an SQL database
- Calling a stored procedure
- Reading BLOB/CLOB from a database
- Building a simple ORM framework
- Using Groovy to access Redis
- Using Groovy to access MongoDB
- Using Groovy to access Apache Cassandra
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8. Working with Web Services in Groovy
- Introduction
- Downloading content from the Internet
- Executing an HTTP GET request
- Executing an HTTP POST request
- Constructing and modifying complex URLs
- Issuing a REST request and parsing a response
- Issuing a SOAP request and parsing a response
- Consuming RSS and Atom feeds
- Using basic authentication for web service security
- Using OAuth for web service security
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9. Metaprogramming and DSLs in Groovy
- Introduction
- Querying methods and properties
- Dynamically extending classes with new methods
- Overriding methods dynamically
- Adding performance logging to methods
- Adding a caching functionality around methods
- Adding transparent imports to a script
- DSL for executing commands over SSH
- DSL for generating reports from logfiles
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10. Concurrent Programming in Groovy
- Introduction
- Processing collections concurrently
- Downloading files concurrently
- Splitting a large task into smaller parallel jobs
- Running tasks in parallel and asynchronously
- Using actors to build message-based concurrency
- Using STM to atomically update fields
- Using dataflow variables for lazy evaluation
- Index
Product information
- Title: Groovy 2 Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2013
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849519366
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