diff --git a/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/Employee.groovy b/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/Employee.groovy
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+package com.baeldung.metaprogramming
+
+import groovy.transform.AutoClone
+import groovy.transform.Canonical
+import groovy.transform.EqualsAndHashCode
+import groovy.transform.ToString
+import groovy.transform.TupleConstructor
+import groovy.util.logging.*
+
+@Canonical
+@TupleConstructor
+@EqualsAndHashCode
+@ToString(includePackage=false, excludes=['id'])
+@Log 
+@AutoClone
+class Employee {
+
+    long id
+    String firstName
+    String lastName
+    int age
+
+    //method to catch missing property's getter
+    def propertyMissing(String propertyName) {
+        log.info "$propertyName is not available"
+        "property '$propertyName' is not available"
+    }
+
+    //method to catch missing property's setter
+    def propertyMissing(String propertyName, propertyValue) {
+        println "property '$propertyName' is not available"
+        log.info "$propertyName is not available"
+        "property '$propertyName' is not available"
+    }
+
+    def methodMissing(String methodName, def methodArgs) {
+        log.info "$methodName is not defined"
+        "method '$methodName' is not defined"
+    }
+    
+    def logEmp() {
+        log.info "Employee: $lastName, $firstName is of $age years age"
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/extension/BasicExtensions.groovy b/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/extension/BasicExtensions.groovy
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+package com.baeldung.metaprogramming.extension
+
+import com.baeldung.metaprogramming.Employee
+
+class BasicExtensions {
+    
+    static int getYearOfBirth(Employee self) {
+        return (new Date().getYear() + 1900) - self.age;
+    }
+    
+    static String capitalize(String self) {
+        return self.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + self.substring(1)
+    }
+
+    static void printCounter(Integer self) {
+        while (self>0) {
+            println self
+            self--
+        }
+    }
+    
+    static Long square(Long self) {
+        return self*self
+    }
+    
+    static BigDecimal cube(BigDecimal self) {
+        return self*self*self
+    }
+    
+}
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diff --git a/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/extension/StaticEmployeeExtension.groovy b/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/extension/StaticEmployeeExtension.groovy
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+++ b/core-groovy-2/src/main/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/extension/StaticEmployeeExtension.groovy
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+package com.baeldung.metaprogramming.extension
+
+import com.baeldung.metaprogramming.Employee
+
+class StaticEmployeeExtension {
+    
+    static Employee getDefaultObj(Employee self) {
+        return new Employee(firstName: "firstName", lastName: "lastName", age: 20)
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/core-groovy-2/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule b/core-groovy-2/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule
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+++ b/core-groovy-2/src/main/resources/META-INF/services/org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ExtensionModule
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+moduleName=core-groovy-2
+moduleVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT
+extensionClasses=com.baeldung.metaprogramming.extension.BasicExtensions
+staticExtensionClasses=com.baeldung.metaprogramming.extension.StaticEmployeeExtension
diff --git a/core-groovy-2/src/test/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/MetaprogrammingUnitTest.groovy b/core-groovy-2/src/test/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/MetaprogrammingUnitTest.groovy
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+++ b/core-groovy-2/src/test/groovy/com/baeldung/metaprogramming/MetaprogrammingUnitTest.groovy
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+package com.baeldung.metaprogramming
+
+import groovy.time.TimeCategory
+
+class MetaprogrammingUnitTest extends GroovyTestCase {
+
+    Employee emp = new Employee(firstName: "Norman", lastName: "Lewis")
+
+    void testPropertyMissing() {
+        assert emp.address == "property 'address' is not available"
+    }
+
+    void testMethodMissing() {
+        Employee emp = new Employee()
+        try {
+            emp.getFullName()
+        } catch(MissingMethodException e) {
+            println "method is not defined"
+        }
+        assert emp.getFullName() == "method 'getFullName' is not defined"
+    }
+
+    void testMetaClassProperty() {
+        Employee.metaClass.address = ""
+        emp = new Employee(firstName: "Norman", lastName: "Lewis", address: "US")
+        assert emp.address == "US"
+    }
+
+    void testMetaClassMethod() {
+        emp.metaClass.getFullName = {
+            "$lastName, $firstName"
+        }
+        assert emp.getFullName() == "Lewis, Norman"
+    }
+
+    void testMetaClassConstructor() {
+        try {
+            Employee emp = new Employee("Norman")
+        } catch(GroovyRuntimeException e) {
+            assert e.message == "Could not find matching constructor for: com.baeldung.metaprogramming.Employee(String)"
+        }
+
+        Employee.metaClass.constructor = { String firstName ->
+            new Employee(firstName: firstName)
+        }
+
+        Employee norman = new Employee("Norman")
+        assert norman.firstName == "Norman"
+        assert norman.lastName == null
+    }
+
+    void testJavaMetaClass() {
+        String.metaClass.capitalize = { String str ->
+            str.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1);
+        }
+        assert "norman".capitalize() == "Norman"
+    }
+
+    void testEmployeeExtension() {
+        Employee emp = new Employee(age: 28)
+        assert emp.getYearOfBirth() == 1991
+    }
+
+    void testJavaClassesExtensions() {
+        5.printCounter()
+
+        assert 40l.square() == 1600l
+
+        assert (2.98).cube() == 26.463592
+    }
+
+    void testStaticEmployeeExtension() {
+        assert Employee.getDefaultObj().firstName == "firstName"
+        assert Employee.getDefaultObj().lastName == "lastName"
+        assert Employee.getDefaultObj().age == 20
+    }
+
+    void testToStringAnnotation() {
+        Employee employee = new Employee()
+        employee.id = 1
+        employee.firstName = "norman"
+        employee.lastName = "lewis"
+        employee.age = 28
+
+        assert employee.toString() == "Employee(norman, lewis, 28)"
+    }
+
+    void testTupleConstructorAnnotation() {
+        Employee norman = new Employee(1, "norman", "lewis", 28)
+        assert norman.toString() == "Employee(norman, lewis, 28)"
+
+        Employee snape = new Employee(2, "snape")
+        assert snape.toString() == "Employee(snape, null, 0)"
+
+    }
+    
+    void testEqualsAndHashCodeAnnotation() {
+        Employee norman = new Employee(1, "norman", "lewis", 28)
+        Employee normanCopy = new Employee(1, "norman", "lewis", 28)
+        assert norman.equals(normanCopy)
+        assert norman.hashCode() == normanCopy.hashCode()
+    }
+    
+    void testAutoCloneAnnotation() {
+        try {
+            Employee norman = new Employee(1, "norman", "lewis", 28)
+            def normanCopy = norman.clone()
+            assert norman == normanCopy
+        } catch(CloneNotSupportedException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace()
+        }
+    }
+
+    void testLoggingAnnotation() {
+        Employee employee = new Employee(1, "Norman", "Lewis", 28)
+        employee.logEmp()
+    }
+}
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