As co-spec lead James Strachan reported in his blog, JSR 241, “The Groovy Programming Language” has been approved for JCP development. And with a unanimous vote!
What’s Groovy, you might ask? Get the answers from:
- Groovy central, groovy.codehaus.org
- Neil Ellis’ Just Groovy
- Mike Spille’s excellent overview, “Groovy: First Contact“
Interested in joining the expert group? Click here to apply, but don’t worry, even if you aren’t in the EG, James has promised a public mailing list RSN.
My take: With this JSR, Groovy joins PHP on the list of non-Java languages for which Java Platform interfaces/implementations are being officially sorted out. And of course, the unofficial list is much, much longer still. The more choice developers have, the better in my opinion. I can’t wait to read the spec and try out the RI once it’s available!
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