The Story of Groovy
James Strachan is the founder of the Groovy Project. His inspiration of this project was started when he and his wife were waiting for the late plane schedule at the airport. He decided to visit Internet Cafée at the Airport, while his wife was going for shopping. When he was browsing from one web page to the others web page he decided to visit Python official Web Site. When he learned this language, he realized that there is a large amount of beautiful language features in Python that do not exist in his beloved programming language and platform technology, Java.
James Strachan and Bob McWhirter founded the Groovy project in 2003, recognizing that application development in Java is characterized by using multiple frameworks and gluing them together to form a product. They designed Groovy to streamline exactly this kind of work. At the same time, Richard Monson-Haefel met James, who introduced him to Groovy. Richard immediately recognized Groovy’s potential and suggested the submission of a Java Specification Request (JSR-241).
But what is the reaction of Sun Microsystem about the born of this language? Do they feel it as the other Java language competitor? No Guys, They don’t see Groovy as Java’s rival but rather as a companion that attracts brilliant developers who might otherwise move to Ruby or Python and thus away from the Java platform. Since the JSR has been accepted, Groovy is the second standard language for the Java VM (besides the Java language itself).
