IntelliJ IDEA 11 for the Groovy Developer

IntelliJ IDEA 11 was released a few weeks ago, and it contains quite a few new features for the Groovy developer. Everything listed in my blog post is in the free and open source Community Edition of IntelliJ IDEA. There are plenty of new Grails features as well, but I wanted to separate out the Ultimate Edition features into a different post.

To read the full post, surf on over to the Canoo Blog: http://www.canoo.com/blog/2011/12/20/intellij-idea-11-for-the-groovy-developer/

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The Art of Groovy Command Expressions in DSLs

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) are often littered with the accidental complexity of the host language. Have you ever seen a supposedly “friendly” language expression like “ride(minutes(10)).on(bus).towards(Basel)”. The newest version of Groovy contains a language feature that aims to eliminate the noise of all those extra periods and parenthesis, so that your DSL looks more like “ride 10.minutes on bus towards Basel”. This article shows you step-by-step how to use Groovy Command Expressions and plain old metaprogramming to write just this DSL, and also offers advice on when, and when not, to use this new language feature.

The full article is available over on the Canoo Blog: http://www.canoo.com/blog/2011/12/08/the-art-of-groovy-command-expressions-in-dsls/

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