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Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition

You're reading from   Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition Extend and enhance your Java applications with domain-specific scripting in Groovy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849695404
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to DSLs and Groovy FREE CHAPTER 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

The Groovy IDE and editor integration

If you are going to do any amount of serious Groovy coding, you will want to work with Groovy in your favorite IDE.

NetBeans

Of the popular IDE environments, NetBeans was the first to provide built-in Groovy support. From NetBeans 6.5 onwards, Groovy support is available from within any of the Java bundles without any additional plugins being required. By default, you have excellent Groovy source editing with syntax highlighting, source folding, and code completion. You can mix and match Groovy with Java in your projects, or build a full Groovy on Grails-based project from scratch. You can download the latest NetBeans installation from https://netbeans.org/downloads/.

Eclipse

Eclipse was the first Java IDE to have Groovy support integrated through the Groovy-Eclipse plugin. You can install the Groovy-Eclipse plugin from the update site at http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.5/.

The Groovy-Eclipse plugin has full support for source-level Groovy...

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