Groovy Training Course

Who should attend

Programmers who are looking to enjoy the benefits of incorporating Groovy into the software development lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Practical experience of programming Java or Scala (for tailored Groovy training courses, we can focus the course content, and flavour and depth based on your team's current skills).

On-site

If you are interested in custom / on-site Groovy training for any size of team, please get in touch – we would be glad to help build a course that meets your learning requirements.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, project requirements and timeframes, and specific topics of interest to tailor the most relevant and focussed course for you.

This can be particularly useful if you need to learn just the new features and Best Practices with Groovy, or need to include extra topics to help with pre-requisite skills.

Introduction to Groovy

• What's Groovy all about?
• Relationship with Java and Scala
• Groovy Language and Syntax Fundamentals

Scripts vs other things

Data Types

• Groovy Data Structures

Control flow and why Groovy inverts it so much

Functions

Classes and methods

Packages

Testing

• Unit Testing, System Testing and Acceptance Testing
• Testing with JUnit, TestNG

Testing your Groovy code with Spock

• Imports
• Specification
• Fields
• Fixture Methods
• Feature Methods
• Blocks
• Helper Methods

Groovy Concurrency and Parallelism

• Java Platform
• JSR166
• GPars Concurrency and Parallelism Framework

GUIs

• SwingBuilder
• Introduction to Griffon
• Networking with Groovy

Manipulating XML with Groovy

• Parsing existing XML with Groovy
• Creating new XML with Groovy
• Updating XML with Groovy
• Validating XML with Groovy

Gradle Build Framework

• What Gradle is and where to get it
• Configuring custom locations for Groovy Production and Test sources
• Dependency Management
• Properties
• Compiling your Groovy source code with Gradle

Persistence and Databases

• Managing Persistence with Groovy
• Connecting to Databases

Web Development with Groovy

• Introduction to Grails
• Controllers
• Views
• Dynamic Tag Librairies