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def file = "input.txt"
// just to heat up the jvm :)
new File(file).eachLine{
    it.toUpperCase()
}

// with closure
start = System.nanoTime()
new File(file).eachLine{
    it.toUpperCase()

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/**
 * Problem: to find if any word exists in *every* line in input
 */

def input =  """This is big line
This is another big big line
There is something common here
"""

/*  APPROACH ONE : order of O(n)

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println System.properties.grep ({it.key.contains("proxy")})

// print all system properties
// System.properties.each {k,v-> println "$k=$v"}

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// define the url
def url = "http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=h&output=rss"

def rss = new XmlSlurper().parse(url) 

println rss.channel.title

rss.channel.item.each {
    println "- ${it.title}"
}

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// saving from url to a file (append)
new File("output.xml") << new URL ("http://some.url/some/path.xml").getText()

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// MarkupBuilder is a lot cleaner way of generating valid xml/html markup
// than writing tags as string and forgetting to close one ;)

def writer = new StringWriter()  // html is written here by markup builder
def markup = new groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder(writer)  // the builder
 
markup.html{
    table {
        tr {
            td(class:"row", "hello world!")  

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// following process executes 'mvn compile' from a groovy script
// it can be replaced with any system program

Process compile = "cmd /c mvn compile".execute() // 'cmd /c' works only on win platform
compile.waitForProcessOutput(out, err)
if (out) println "out:\n$out"
if (err) println "err:\n$err"
exitValue =  compile.exitValue()

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def file_path = "C:/path/to/excel/file.xlsx"
def read_only = true

// Unfortunately this will work only on windows because of this driver :(
def connection_url= """jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)};
        DBQ=$file_path;READONLY=$read_only"""

if (!new File(file_path).exists()) return "invalid file"

def sql = groovy.sql.Sql.newInstance(connection_url, '', '')

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    ...
    <reporting>
        <plugins>
            <!-- checks the test coverage -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${cobertura.version}</version>
            </plugin>

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    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>6.1.24</version> <!-- TODO upgrade to version 7 -->
        <configuration>
            <stopPort>9669</stopPort>
            <stopKey>${appname}</stopKey>
            <!-- Redeploy every x seconds if changes are detected, 
                    0 for no automatic redeployment -->
            <scanIntervalSeconds>3</scanIntervalSeconds>