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Groovy 1.0 is There

Posted by: Romain Guy on January 2, 2007

I just got the news from Guillaume, Groovy 1.0 has finally been released! I've been waiting for this for a long time and I have now no excuse to read Groovy in Action I promised Guillaume I would read :-)

By the way, I particularly like the Swing Builder provided by Groovy. It lets you create complex layout and UIs in a much cleaner way than usual Java code. It compares to F3 code but I prefer Groovy's approach which seems more natural to me after all those years of Java.

P.S: I also need to learn Grails so maybe I can write web sites with Java technology (after years of PHP, I hate it, Zope is just a joke to me and I never liked the Ruby language.)

Romain Guy

About Romain Guy

Romain Guy is a French student who worked for one year among the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has 7 years of experience in Java development, as an Open Source and freelance developer. He also worked as a freelance journalist for a French computing magazine, as a translator for O'Reilly and taught Java in a University. Today Romain focuses on UI design and humane interaction, especially in the Desktop Java field.

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