Using the Groovy Ecosystem for Rapid Development on the JVM
summary
Overview of the Groovy ecosystem and how its pieces actually get work done: SDKMAN for JDK and tool versioning installs and switches SDKs per-user; Gradle DSL + Groovy for polyglot builds and distributions compiles Java/Groovy/Kotlin, zips runnable apps with scripts and dependencies, and can build native C++ via toolchains; Spock for expressive, data‑driven tests and mocks produces clear failure reports; Ratpack for tiny reactive REST services boots in a few lines and runs well. Includes Groovy VFS and SSH “sugar” for short ops; static compile can match Java performance.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:44ABOUT ME
- 5:34SOKMAN DEMO
- 7:47GROOVY VS JAVA
- 9:48CALLING METHODS WITH CLOSURES
- 11:41LISTS IN GROOVY
- 12:07CLOSURE DELEGATION IN GROOVY
- 14:00MORE CLOSURE MAGIC
- 14:35SMOOTH OPERATOR: ELVIS
- 15:08SMOOTH OPERATOR: SAFE NAVIGATION
- 16:18SMOOTH OPERATOR: SPREAD
- 17:02STATIC VS DYNAMIC
- 18:59IS GROOVY SLOWER THAN JAVA?
- 19:36APACHE GROOVY
- 27:28GRADLE IVM POLYGOT
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