Groovy overview

Groovy is an object-oriented language based on the Java platform. G roovy 1.0 was released on January 2, 2007, with Groovy 2.4 as the current major release. Groovy was released via Apache License v 2.0.

Groovy's characteristics

Groovy has the following features:

• Both static and dynamic types are supported.
• Support operator overloading.
• Local syntax lists and associated arrays.
• Local support for regular expressions.
• Various markup languages, such as XML and HTML native support.
• Groovy is simple for Java developers because Java and Groovy have very similar syntax.
• You can use the existing Java library.
• Groovy extended java.lang.Object.

Groovy's official website http://www.groovy-lang.org/