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New to Groovy? Fear not, hip daredevil! While “Groovy in Action” is undoubtedly your vade mecum as it is for countless other madcaps, the copasetic folks at IBM developerWorks have recently published “Fluently Groovy” to quell your Groovy thirsts, baby.

This tutorial is for hip developers unfamiliar with Groovy and who want a quick and copasetic introduction to the basics, man. Get started with Groovy’s simplified variation of the Java syntax and learn about essential features like native collections and closures. Write your first Groovy class, and then see how easily you can use JUnit to test it, baby.

Because it’s your bag, you’ll walk (no, dance!) away from this one-hour tutorial with a fully functioning Groovy development environment and the skills to use it. Right on! Best of all, you’ll have learned first-hand how to use Groovy and Java code together in your everyday Java application development. How’s that sound for a party, baby?! What are you waiting for? Read on!

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