Ant has been widely celebrated as the future of build processing. In fact, it represents a great improvement over previous make tools: it is extendible, multiplatform, and standard-based. Some Ant ...

I recently returned from JavaOne 2005 in San Francisco. The show was impressive for a number of reasons. The attendance seemed to be about 30% larger than last year's. The same could be said for the ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Quick question - I'm parsing an xml file in Groovy in which some of the values being parsed out are korn shell commands I want to run. I can either have them run directly as they are parsed or store ...

Oracle said it will participate in Grails, an open-source project that seeks to make Java programmers more productive through a close tie-in to the Groovy scripting language. Grails is a project to ...

The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language’s developers note. Last month, SpringSource, a division of VMware, ...