This will make every TDD/Groovy enthusiast happy: Groovy 1.7 will contain powerful assertions. This assertion here assert new File(’foo.bar’) == new File(’example.txt’) will yield this output: Caught: Assertion failed:   assert new File(’foo.bar’) == new File(’example.txt’) | | | foo.bar | example.txt false Isn’t that cool? Read more about the new Features in Groovy 1.7.

For AndroMDA 4, I designed a plugin registry configuration language and a workflow language, both of them based on XML. After some time, I found out that this was not the best choice. XML can become complex and wordy and it lacks real good tool support (did you ever try to run a unit test [...]