Groovy for Domain-

Specific Languages

Yaroslav Yermilov

Senior Software Engineer, EPAM Systems

About DSL

A domain-specific language (DSL)

is a computer language specialized

to a particular application domain.

This is in contrast to a general-

purpose language (GPL), which is

broadly applicable across domains,

and lacks specialized features for a

particular domain.

Why DSL?

● The Open Closed Principle

● Help yourself

● Involve stakeholder

About Groovy

Why Groovy?

● JVM

● removing boilerplate

● closures

● operator overloading

● metaprogramming

● AST-transformations

● much more

https://github.com/yermilov/groovy-dsl

Further reading