Details
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Improvement
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Resolution: Fixed
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Major
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1.8 RC1
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None
Description
This is with very great pleasure and honor that I'm announcing the
final release of Groovy 1.6, on behalf of the Groovy development team
and SpringSource.Obviously, 1.6 is a very important milestone for the project, with
several great new features and improvements:
- great runtime performance improvements
- multiple assignments
- optional return in if/else and try/catch blocks
- AST transformations and all the provided transformation annotations
like @Singleton, @Lazy, @Immutable, @Delegate and friends- the Grape module and dependency system and its @Grab transformation
- various Swing builder improvements, thanks to the Swing / Griffon
(http://griffon.codehaus.org) team- as well as several Swing console improvements
- the integration of JMX builder
- JSR-223 scripting engine built-in
- various metaprogramming improvements, like the EMC DSL, per-instance
metaclasses even for POJOs, and runtime mixins