1. Ecosystem
Andres Almiray
Canoo Fellow
Canoo Engineering AG

2. About the Speaker
• Java developer since the beginning
• True believer in Open Source
• Groovy committer since 2007
• Project lead of the Griffon framework
• Currently working for

4. http://grails.org
• Started in 2005, inspired by Ruby on Rails
• Apache License 2.0
• Builds on top of Spring, Hibernate, Sitemesh
• More than 600 plugins available
• Used for both small and large scale projects
• Latest release 2.0.0-RC1
• Peter Ledbrook will be around

6. http://griffon.codehaus.org
• Started in 2008, inspired by Grails
• Apache License 2.0
• Build desktop apps effortlessly
• More than 170 plugins
• Polyglot aware
• Multi toolkit support
• Latest release: 0.9.4

8. http://gaelyk.appspot.com
• Started in 2009
• Apache License 2.0
• Provides lightweight abstractions over GAE’s
services
• Emerging plugin system
• Latest release: 1.0
• Guillaume will be around

10. http://gradle.org
• Started in 2007
• Apache Licence 2.0
• Groovy DSL for project building
• Harness the power of maven conventions
• Has a very deep DAG for handling task
dependencies
• Plugin system ready
• Latest release: 1.0-milestone-5

12. http://gant.codehaus.org
• Started sometime in 2006
• Apache License 2.0
• Think Ant without the ugly XML
• Used by both Grails and Griffon
• Latest release: groovy1.8-1.9.7

14. http://easyb.org
• Started in 2008
• Apache License 2.0
• Inspired in JBehave
• Enables BDD testing for Java/Groovy code
• IDE Integration
• Plugins for Grails & Griffon
• Latest release: 0.9.8

15. Spock

16. http://spockframework.org
• Started in 2007
• Apache License 2.0
• Testing DSL framework
• Think Junit4 meets RSpec plus some magic

18. http://codenarc.sourceforge.net
• Started in 2009
• Apache License 2.0
• Enables static code analysis for Groovy code
• Plugins for Grails, Griffon and Gradle
• GMetrics: sibling project that provides basic code
metrics

20. http://gpars.codehaus.org
• Started in 2009
• Apache License 2.0 (?)
• Brings concurrency management structures to
Groovy:
–Actors, Dataflow, fork/join
• Don’t miss Vaclav Pech at 17:25 today!

21. And many more!
• Ratpack
–https://github.com/bleedingwolf/Ratpack
• GContracts
–https://github.com/andresteingress/gcontracts
• Groovy++
–http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest

22. Thank you!
Andres Almiray
@aalmiray
andres.almiray@canoo.com