Groovy JSR approved

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!