The Groovy lessons reflect my first steps into Groovy territory. Groovy is a programming language that builds on Java and is quite seamlessly integrated with Java.

After learning to run simple stuff in the GroovyShell you naturally want to proceed to something resembling an application. Run it conveniently using the GroovyScriptEngine. Enter the following lines in a GroovyShell:
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Ubiquitous computing. If English isn’t your first language you probably scramble for a dictionary. The ubiquitous entry would say something like this:

found or seeming to be found everywhere; ever-present

So, ubiquitous computing literally means computing everywhere. The concept could have been buried in the sediment of time and forgotten, had there not been some startling development in East Asia.

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