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Groovy Training for Java Developers
Delivery Options
- Live Online Training - Public Class (): $1,900.00
- Customized Onsite Training (4 days): Request a Proposal
Upcoming Live eLearning Classes
There are currently no upcoming Live eLearning classes. Please contact us if you would like us to schedule a class.
Class Description
Class Overview
This Groovy training course teaches experienced Java developers how to write programs in Groovy that simplify, enhance, and expand their existing systems.
Class Goals
- Understand how dynamic languages differ from languages like Java or C#.
- Learn to work with Groovy closures.
- Learn to use Groovy control structures.
- Learn to build object-oriented programs in Groovy.
- Learn to use Groovy builders to reduce complexity.
- Learn to access databases using Groovy.
- Learn to process XML files in Groovy.
- Learn to write unit tests in Groovy.
- Learn to access Java classes from Groovy, and vice versa.
- Learn to build a simple web application using Grails.
Class Outline
- Groovy Fundamentals
- Differences between Groovy and Java
- Compiling and executing Groovy programs
- The basic Groovy data types and optional typing
- Writing Groovy scripts
- Declaring classes
- Overriding operators and type coercion
- GDK: the Groovy library
- Groovy strings
- Regular expressions in Groovy
- Groovy Collections
- Ranges
- Lists
- Maps
- Iterators and polymorphic algorithms
- Closures in Groovy
- Declaring closures
- Available options for calling closures
- Groovy Control Structures
- The "Groovy truth"
- Conditional execution
- Looping constructs
- Using Classes and Scripts
- Groovy fields and local variables
- Methods and operations
- Safe dereferencing with the ?. operator
- Organizing classes in packages
- Using inheritance
- Working with GroovyBeans
- Injecting methods with Categories
- A bit about the Expando metaclass
- Groovy Builders
- NodeBuilder
- MarkupBuilder
- SwingBuilder
- Survey of the GDK
- Simplified File access
- Templates
- Groovlets
- Database Access with Groovy
- Basic database operations
- DataSet operations
- Groovy and ORM solutions
- Working with XML
- Reading and parsing XML documents
- Using XPath expressions
- Distributed processing with XML
- Unit Testing in Groovy
- GroovyTestCase
- Unit-testing Groovy code
- Unit-testing Java code
- Code coverage and automation
- Web Development with Grails
- The Grails framework
- Creating web applications using Grails
Class Materials
Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following areas is required:
- Good knowledge of Java techniques, including the Collections framework and JDBC
Technical Requirements
Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.
- Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
- WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.
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