Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You’ll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming techniques including metaprogramming, Bbilders, unit testing with mock objects, processing XML, working with databases, and creating your own domain-specific languages (DSLs).

Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, agile, dynamic language that runs on the rich framework of the Java Platform. Groovy preserves the Java semantics and extends the JDK to give you true dynamic language capabilities — programming in Groovy feels like you’re using an augmented Java. Programming Groovy will help you learn and take advantage of the latest version of this rich dynamic language, so you can be a more productive Java Platform developer.

With a particular emphasis on metaprogramming in Groovy, award-winning author and trainer Venkat Subramaniam makes it easy for you to learn in no time at all.