Version 1.7 of Groovy has been released. Groovy is
a JVM hosted scripting language that "builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk." New features in 1.7 include:
- Anonymous Inner Classes and nested classes. (I could have sworn Groovy had closures so it didn't need these half-measures?)
- Can now annotate imports, packages and variable declarations
- Power Asserts, whatever those are
- AST Viewer and AST Builder, for easing the creation of AST transformations
- Several GroovyConsole enhancements, like line numbers, a new output view, and more
- SQL batch updates and transaction support
- The kitchen sink