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 ...

My favorite use of Groovy is to write simple scripts that rely on Java classes or other features of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on which Groovy is running. The reduced ceremony approach of Groovy ...

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 ...

Java-compatible language Groovy has re-entered the top 20 most popular languages, according to Tiobe's search engine-based rankings. Groovy, which came to life in 2007, hasn't been a top-20 language ...

The latest major release of the Apache programming language for the Java Virtual Machine offers numerous simplifications and new functions. The Apache Software Foundation has presented version 5.0 of ...