Groovy (A Relevance, Inc. Training Offering)

1. Exploring Groovy

• What is Groovy?
• Why Groovy?
• Signal to noise ratio
• Groovy in the Java World
• Tools and IDEs for Groovy
• Ways to use Groovy

2. Java and Groovy

• Mixing Java into Groovy
• Mixing Groovy into Java
• Compilation issues
• Performance considerations

3. Unit Testing with Groovy

• Fundamentals of Unit Testing
• Why Groovy is a better option for unit testing
• Baked-in unit testing
• Power of Groovy for unit testing
• Deciding between Stub vs. Mock
• Mocking dependencies with Expando
• Mocking deep dependencies with Interceptors

4. Groovy Types and Typing

• Data Types in Groovy
• Groovy and Typing
• Static vs. Dynamic vs. Optional Typing
• Issues with typing

5. Groovy Strings

• Strings in Groovy
• Expressions and Literals
• Multiple lines of String
• Working with Strings
• Operator overloading

6. Collections in Groovy

• Collections API
• Using ArrayList
• Using Hashmap
• Iterators and convenience methods

7. Groovy Closures

• Functional Programming and Lambda Expressions
• Blocks and Closures
• Writing closures
• Calling closures
• Power and limitations of closures

8. Groovy Developer Kit

• What is GDK?
• Advantages of using GDK
• GDK enhancements

9. DSLs in Groovy

• What are DSLs?
• Types of DSLs
• Creating DSL using Groovy
• Groovy in Rules Engines

10. Markup Builders

• What are Builders?
• Builders in Groovy
• Creating your own Builder

11. Groovy XML Processing

• Parsing XML
• Generating XML
• Performance considerations

12. Groovy and Databases

• APIs and Builders for database access
• Working with Microsoft Excel

13. Groovy Gotchas

• Language idiosyncrasies
• Behaviors different from Java

14. Spring and Groovy

• Spring 2.0 and dynamic languages
• Benefits of using Groovy with Spring
• Options for using Groovy with Spring

15. Web Development with Groovy and Grails

• What is Grails?
• Groovy in Grails
• Creating Web Applications in Grails