Ask me a month ago regarding my choice of scripting language, my answer would have been Perl or, if it’s a trivial use case, Bash. That’s no longer the case. Now, I am eager to flex my Groovy knowledge. Why Groovy? Consider the use case of executing a system command and redirecting the output to be processed by your program. With Perl, this is a trivial task: just use a backquote to perform your system command. Perl will assign the result of your standard out to the left-hand variable. In Groovy, it’s just as easy. Now, imagine having to perform…
Category: <span>Java</span>
Every once in a while, an email thread is started by an individual wanting to know how to connect to SharePoint web services from java. The first time I came across this challenge was back in 2007 when I was building a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) workflow system for the business group I was supporting. One of the key requirements of this system was to retain an audit trail of all emails and documents associated with a given workflow. To put it bluntly, SharePoint wasn’t my first choice. I was very much aware of other document management systems which would have been a better…