On Mar 29, 1:54 pm, Jonathan Fuerth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I work at a financial company (a forex dealer) in Toronto. My team is > currently starting to use Groovy in the periphery of what we do: things like > log analysis and other tools for in-house use. We plan to replace our Ant + > Ivy build with a Gradle build in the coming weeks. We're pretty excited > about shedding the XML from our build files! >
Hi Jonathan I heard great things about Gradle. Sadly I closed the old user group that I founded, before Hans could come over to London and give us a first-person talk. > We don't presently have any Groovy code in direct production use, largely > because our team's product is the applet/webstart trading UI and we have to > keep the download small. If we were to embrace a dynamic language in our > production code, we'd have our hands forced toward JavaScript simply because > it's already available in the JRE. Dick has raised a similar issue on the > podcast a few times regarding Scala on Android: bundling the runtime > libraries with the apps is just not feasible. This is an interest question and scenario for the JavaFX 2.0 and JDK Deploy teams inside Oracle. I believe that the plans would be for Oracle extra bundle for JDK7 with JavaFX 2.0 included. For the truly modular downloads on a Java (and plus any other JVM language) on the desktop, would require the modular JDK 8/JRE. In a nutshell, we all have to wait. > > As for the culture at our company (I think your original question was > driving at this), I imagine it would be pretty easy to get approval for a > groovy-based backend component if someone wanted to make one. Glad hear that Groovy is being adopted. It is an easy way to get into application component if you are already building an infrastructure. I am assuming that your companies build infrastructure breaks the Maven doctrine. For example there is a lot of legacy Java (C#, TOAD, PLSQL, Unix Scripts) already in Perforce/MKCV/ClearCase on some global internal repo somewhere. > > Hope that helps! Yes it does. Best of luck with Groovy/Gradle > > -Jonathan > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
