It's been a while since I've seen anyone blogging about Groovy. It used to be quite the hot topic. I passed on Groovy when it was the big buzz simply because I didn't find it useful for my day to day activities. Recently there was a promotion on JavaRanch for Groovy in Action and I was able to really get the skinny on Groovy from Dierk Koenig among other Groovy advocates.
I had many misconceptions about Groovy that were cleared up during the promotion. I'm happy to say that I've been seeing more and more uses now for Groovy in my day to day development activities. Automation is a wonderful thing and to be able to build tools quickly and easily without the need to learn a completely new language rocks. Add that on top of being able to use these tools directly in Java code with nothing to do but add a jar to my classpath, and you can be extremely productive.
There are a lot of good from the promotion week if anyone wants to take a look. I'll be writing a review for Groovy in Action pretty soon so look for that at the JavaRanch Bunkhouse. What I'd like to know is what are others using Groovy for right now.