Java脚本语言Groovy 1.8.0 正式版发布

今天，Groovy开发团队自豪地宣布Groovy1.8.0最终版本发布了！Groovy是一种基于JVM的敏捷开发语言，它结合了Python、Ruby和Smalltalk的许多强大的特性。

继4个测试版和4个候选版发布后，经过许多卓越的工作和努力Groovy1.8.0最终版本终于问世了！令人激动的是该版本有大量的新功能和增强点，特别是以下几项：

• the new Domain-Specific Language authoring capabilities for more readability and expressivity of your business rules,
• the runtime performance improvements,
• the bundling of the GPars parallel and concurrency library,
• the built-in JSON support,
• the new compile-time meta-programming features (several new useful AST transformations),
• the new functional programming aspects of closures,
• and more helpers and library additions

发行说明：
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+1.8+release+notes