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Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849695404
Pages 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Fergal Dearle Fergal Dearle
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Fergal is a seasoned software development professional with 23 years of experience in software product development across a wide variety of technologies. He is currently principal consultant with his own software development consulting company, Dearle Technologies Ltd., engaged in design, development, and architecture for new software products for client companies. In the past Fergal has worked in lead architect and developer roles for Candle Corporation on the OMEGAMON product which is now part of IBMs Tivoli product suite as development manager for the Unix implementations of Lotus 1-2-3. In the early 1990s Fergal lead the team at Glockenspiel that developed CommonView, the first object-oriented UI framework for Microsoft Windows. The team was awarded one of the first ever Jolt Productivity Awards by Dr Dobbs Journal.
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Groovy for Domain-specific Languages Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to DSLs and Groovy 2. Groovy Quick Start 3. Essential Groovy DSLs 4. The Groovy Language 5. Groovy Closures 6. Example DSL – GeeTwitter 7. Power Groovy DSL Features 8. AST Transformations 9. Existing Groovy DSLs 10. Building a Builder 11. Implementing a Rules DSL 12. Integrating It All Index

Installing Groovy with GVM

The Groovy ecosystem continues to evolve and is not too proud to take inspiration from other sources. While the language itself has moved forwards in leaps and bounds over the last few years, by far my favorite addition to the ecosystem is GVM (Groovy enVironment Manager). GVM was inspired by tools such as RVM (Ruby Version Manager).

GVM is the ideal tool for maintaining parallel versions of the various tools in the Groovy ecosystem. GVM has a simple and intuitive command-line interface for installing and using Groovy, and a whole collection of other useful Groovy-based tools. Switching between different versions of the Grails framework is achieved with a simple command:

$gvm use grails 3.0.5
$grails run-app
$gvm u grails 3.0.5
$grails upgrade

As well as Groovy itself, GVM can be used to install most of the popular Groovy tools such as Grails, Griffon, Gradle, and Vert.x. This list is being extended by the Groovy community all the time, so for the latest list of...

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Profile icon Fergal Dearle
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Fergal is a seasoned software development professional with 23 years of experience in software product development across a wide variety of technologies. He is currently principal consultant with his own software development consulting company, Dearle Technologies Ltd., engaged in design, development, and architecture for new software products for client companies. In the past Fergal has worked in lead architect and developer roles for Candle Corporation on the OMEGAMON product which is now part of IBMs Tivoli product suite as development manager for the Unix implementations of Lotus 1-2-3. In the early 1990s Fergal lead the team at Glockenspiel that developed CommonView, the first object-oriented UI framework for Microsoft Windows. The team was awarded one of the first ever Jolt Productivity Awards by Dr Dobbs Journal.
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