Groovy 1.5 ist out. It’s grooviest thing on earth. Far beyond the Grandfather of Funk himself, if you believe to the rumours and the ‘press’. Wow! It’s sooo groooovy and you really feel groovy if you’re elected to work with it.

I had some looks at groovy again and again since years. In theory it’s cool and I have many ideas where to use it. I developed some really groovy things in the past two weeks and I wanted to report about them here. But I only feel groovy when thinking about groovy. In theory.

Pratically I hate groovy, because I spend to much time on it, trying to run stupid unit tests in eclipse. The Eclipse Groovy plugin is shockingly terrible. At least it does not even compile my Groovy classes. Argh! Renaming a package which is used in a Groovy class crashes the whole IDE. Much wasted time.

Yes, groovy could be groovy, if there were a reasenable tooling we can use. (I have to stick with Eclipse.)

I hope I can report something positive soon.