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 ...

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The new version of the Groovy programming language aims to make life easier for programmers who work with Java and SQL, the language’s developers note. Last month, SpringSource, a division of VMware, ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Oracle said it will participate in Grails, an open-source project that seeks to make Java programmers more productive through a close tie-in to the Groovy scripting language. Grails is a project to ...