BANGALORE, INDIA: Get started with Groovy's simplified variation of the Java syntax and learn about essential features like native collections, built-in regular expressions, and closures. Write your first Groovy class, and then see how easily you can use JUnit to test it.

Walk away from this one-hour tutorial with a fully functioning Groovy development environment and the skills to use it. Best of all, you'll have learned first-hand how to use Groovy and Java code together in your everyday Java application development.

Groovy is a lot like Java 2.0, if someone set out to completely rewrite the Java language today. Rather than replacing Java, Groovy complements it, providing a simpler, slicker syntax where the type checking is done dynamically at runtime. You can use Groovy to write Java applications on the fly, to glue together Java modules, or even to extend existing Java applications, you can even use Groovy to unit test your Java code. And the beauty of it is, Groovy lets you do all these things faster than you would if you were writing pure Java code.

In this tip, you'll get to know Groovy, a dynamic language that sits as comfortably on the Java platform as does the Java language itself.

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