Ecosystem. About the Speaker Java developer since the beginning True believer in Open Source Groovy committer since 2007 Project lead of the Griffon framework.

Ecosystem

About the Speaker

• Java developer since the beginning• True believer in Open Source• Groovy committer since 2007• Project lead of the Griffon framework• Currently working for

http://grails.org

• Started in 2005, inspired by Ruby on Rails• Apache License 2.0• Builds on top of Spring, Hibernate, Sitemesh• More than 500 plugins available• Used for both small and large scale projects

http://griffon.codehaus.org

• Started in 2008, inspired by Grails• Apache License 2.0• Build desktop apps effortlessly• More than 135 plugins• Polyglot aware• Multi toolkit support

http://gaelyk.appspot.com

• Started in 2009• Apache License 2.0• Provides lightweight abstractions over GAE’s

services• Emerging plugin system

Gradle

http://gradle.org

• Started in 2007• Apache Licence 2.0• Groovy DSL for project building• Harness the power of maven conventions• Has a very deep DAG for handling task

dependencies• Plugin system ready

http://gant.codehaus.org

• Started sometime in 2006• Apache License 2.0• Think Ant without the ugly XML• Used by both Grails and Griffon

http://easyb.org

• Started in 2008• Apache License 2.0• Inspired in JBehave• Enables BDD testing for Java/Groovy code• IDE Integration• Plugins for Grails & Griffon

Spock

http://spockframework.org

• Started in 2007• Apache License 2.0• Testing DSL framework• Think Junit4 meets RSpec plus some magic

http://codenarc.sourceforge.net

• Started in 2009• Apache License 2.0• Enables static code analysis for Groovy code• Plugins for Grails, Griffon and Gradle

• GMetrics: sibling project that provides basic code metrics

http://gpars.codehaus.org

• Started in 2009• Apache License 2.0 (?)• Brings concurrency management structures to

Groovy:– Actors, Dataflow, fork/join

And many more!

• Ratpack https://github.com/bleedingwolf/Ratpack

• GContracts https://github.com/andresteingress/gcontracts

• Groovy++ http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest

Thank you!

@aalmiray