Groovy In Action: grash: a unix-like shell for your Java Runtime in 100 % Groovy

Hello,

   allow me to highlight grash - a unix-like shell for
your Java runtime written in 100 % Groovy - that
showcases the power of Groovy.

   Jeremy Rayner aka Javanicus writes in the blog
story titled "grash: a unix-like shell for your JVM":

   "If everything in Unix is a file and everything in
Java is an Object, wouldn't it be nice if you could
explore your Objects in the JVM with the same powerful
mechanisms you use in Unix."

  My line of thought a couple of weeks ago has led to
a small implementation of a shell for the JVM, which I
have named grash. The name is derived from the fact
that it is based in part on the externally observed
behaviour of the bash shell, and that it is written in
and exposes to the user the Groovy programming
language. Hence 'GRoovy-Again SHell'

  Using the concept of a 'current working instance' in
place of a 'current working directory' some of the
tools in a normal shell already make some sense.

 What follows has been adapted from the wonderful
Kernighan and Pike...

  Full story @
http://web1.2020media.com/j/jez/javanicuscom/blog2/items/161-index.html

   - Gerald

PS: For comments on grash from Groovy legend James
Strachan see
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/2004/10/25.html#a511

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Gerald Bauer
Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 -
http://richcon.com
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