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Google App Engine Adds Java Support, Groovy Meta-Programming

Posted by Soulskill on from the engines-firing-on-more-cylinders dept.

Zarf writes "Yesterday Google announced that the Google App Engine now supports Java development, and fast on the heels of the Java announcement is an announcement for Groovy support! Groovy is a dynamic programming language for the JVM that is a near super-set of Java. Much Java syntax is valid Groovy syntax, however, Groovy adds powerful meta-programming features, and the new functionality will bring these meta-programming features to App Engine development. Groovy got special attention from the SpringSource Groovy team and the Google App Engine Java team, and it was this collaboration that helped create the changes that were the big secret in the recent Groovy release of 1.6.1."

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  1. But... by MrEricSir · · Score: 3, Funny

    But Groovy is NEW! And new is better! Just ask any developer!

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  2. Re:Awesome by jlp2097 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly! We just need to proactively monetize the synergistic potential of this new paradigm of cloud computing and meta-programming by thinking outside the box and leverage these tools to enable a better strategic fit in our forward-thinking, customercentric enterprise.
     
    ;-)

  3. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa, FABULOUS acronym!

  4. Re:Awesome by Blue+Stone · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm concerned that my blue-sky thinking will be obscured by your cloud computing. Any advice?

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  5. Re:Looks like Python by Zarf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just goes to prove that Python is the best language ever. Clearly you don't ever need to learn anything else. I strongly encourage you to not learn Groovy as it would poison your mind.

    Obviously there's nothing the JVM has to offer you.

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  6. Re:cash cow by Camann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well it would be a great improvement over t

    Segmentation Fault

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  7. Making Java as unreadable as Perl by heroine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Surely there is a way to make Java even less readable than Groovy. Maybe make the entire language pure regular expressions or allow every character including the . to be an object.

    One outcome of Sun's future liquidation is that no-one is around to promote the 1 Jesus language & Java ends up fragmenting into thousands of derivatives like Linux or Fortran.