2. ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Java developer since the beginning
True believer in open source
Groovy committer since 2007
Project lead of the Griffon framework
Currently working for
17. USE CASES
Given a list of beers and their prices:
Find the cheapest beer
Find the most expensive beer
What’s the name of the most expensive beer
Get all the beer names
What’s the total price
23. PROS & CONS
Java collections Non-lazy evaluation
Closures! Streams not
Plays nice with all included in core
other functional filter/map/reduce
frameworks
Metaprogramming!