Groovy v1.7.8 releases a new Java 2 platform language

Groovy is a burgeoning Java 2 platform language. Groovy code can be combined well with Java code to extend existing code. The current Groovy version is 1.6.3, available on both Java 1.4 and Java 5 platforms, and can also be used on Java 6.

Groovy is an alternative language to the JVM-alternative is to use groovy on the Java platform for Java programming, using the same way as Java code.

Groovy interface

is an agile dynamic language based on Java virtual machines.
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Provides Java developers with the most popular programming language features in the modern age, and the cost of learning is low (almost 0).
Support DSL (Domain specific languages domain definition language) and other concise syntax to make your code easier to read and maintain.
Groovy has a native type, object-oriented, and an ant DSL, making it very easy to create a shell scripts.
Developers are significantly more efficient when developing Web,gui, databases, or console programs by reducing the framework of code.
Supports unit tests and simulations (objects) to simplify testing.
Seamlessly integrates all existing Java objects and class libraries.
Compile directly into Java bytecode so you can use groovy in any place where Java is used.

One advantage of Groovy is that its syntax is very similar to the syntax of the Java language. While Groovy's syntax stems from the idea of languages such as Smalltalk and Ruby, it can be imagined as a simpler, more expressive variant of the Java language. (At this point, Ruby differs from Groovy because its syntax differs greatly from the Java syntax.) ）

Groovy version 1.7.8 was released as the last version of 1.7.x because the team was convinced that no bugs existed. This version fixes few problems, but it is important, especially Groovy-4678 bugs.

[GROOVY-4626]-Console launched from Groovy-all-1.7.6.jar now Super-delegates Ivy Dependancy
[GROOVY-4669]-"anystring" as byte] throws Java.lang.NumberFormatException:For input string: "AnyString"
[GROOVY-4678]-high number of generated classes