Using Groovy, Java developers can work up scripts and codes without worrying about the sometimes considerable amount of boilerplate code that accompanies full-scale Java programs, said Guillaume ...

Fortunately, Groovy 1.6 (I’m using 1.6.2) provides built-in JSR 223 support that makes it really easy to embed Groovy within Java.

The Groovy 1.8 Release notes describes the problem in a slightly different way: “When defining variables in a script, those variables are actually local to the script’s run method, so they are ...