Groovy Programming

CHAPTER 12 CLASSES

A Groovy class is a collection of data and the methods that operate on that data. Together, the data and methods of a class are used to represent some real world object from the problem domain. For example, if we are developing a banking application, we might expect to find classes to represent account objects, bank objects, and perhaps customer objects. Similarly, in a university student record system, we might require classes to represent student objects, course and module objects, as well as objects that represent programs of study.

Observe how these real-world objects may have a physical presence or may represent some well-understood conceptual entity in the application. In our examples, a student will most definitely ...