Scott Davis on Groovy programming for Java guys
Scott Davis is the self-proclaimed "Java guy" who today edits aboutGroovy.com. 
Davis believes Groovy is "what the Java language would look like had it been written in the 21st century," and calls it a
"concise, natural" language for Java development. In this conversation with Daniel Steinberg, find out what has Davis sold
on Groovy (and Grails) and what he has to say about scripting with other dynamic languages for the Java platform, including
JRuby and Jython.
- You can learn a lot more about Groovy and Grails by visiting aboutGroovy.com.
- Get in line for Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Scott Davis and Venkat Subramaniam, Pragmatic Bookshelf, December 15, 2007).
- Also check out "Build scripts with Groovy and Ant" (Filippo Diotalevi, JavaWorld, October 2004) for a practical introduction to using Groovy.
- See "Choosing a Java scripting language" (David Kearns, JavaWorld, March 2005) for a comparative look at a wide range of lesser known scripting languages, including Pnuts, Jacl, Rhino, and BeanShell.
- "JRuby on Rails: The power of Java, the simplicy of Rails" (Joshua Fox, JavaWorld, February 2007) offers a closer look at JRuby and explores the place where Rails meets Java.
- Stay tuned for more inside views from JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider.
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