Groovy, a relatively new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. This course includes Groovy programming, introducing developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. Reusable code will be used in the examples to help explain the underlying concepts. This course will help Java and other OO developers new to Groovy easily transition into the dynamic programming world. Developers with some Groovy experience will gain a solid reference to help them explore Groovy even deeper and with more creativity.

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Use simple and collective Groovy data types
• Work with Closures and Groovy Control Structures
• Understand Dynamic Object Orientation, Groovy style
• Work with the GDK
• Use Groovy to access Databases
• Understand Test Driven Development (TDD )with Unit Testing and Build Support
• Understand how dynamic languages differ from languages like Java or C#.
• Learn to build object-oriented programs in Groovy.
• Learn to use Groovy builders to reduce complexity.
• Learn to process XML files in Groovy.
• Learn to access Java classes from Groovy, and vice versa.
• Learn to build a simple web application using Grails.

This course is designed for software developers.

Experience in some type of programming is required.

Instructor led with 50% lecture and 50% lab.