Groovy Goodness: Use Optional In Conditional Context
In Groovy 2.5.0 we can use a Java 8 Optional object in a conditional context.
When an Optional object has a value the value is coerced to true and when empty the value is false.
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Grassroots Groovy: Parse XML with XmlSlurper from Java
We can introduce Groovy into our Java projects at grassroots level. Even if we aren't allowed to run the Groovy compiler we can use other ways to run Groovy code. As long as we can include the Groovy libraries as a compile dependency than we can already use Groovy from Java. In this post we see how we can use the power of XmlSlurper to parse XML from our Java code.
