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This document describes how to install a binary distribution of Groovy.
The latest release of Groovy is groovy-1.0.
- downloada binary distribution of Groovy and unpack thedistribution into some file on your local file system.
- set your GROOVY__HOME_ environment variable to the directory you unpackedthe distribution
- add GROOVY_HOME/bin_ to your _PATH environment variable.
- set your JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your JDK. On OS X this is /Library/Java/Home, on other unixes its often /usr/java etc. If you've already installed tools like Ant or Maven you've probably already done this step
- you should now have Groovy installed properly. You can test this by typing the following in a command shell...
Which should create an interactive groovy shell where you can type Groovy statements. Or to run the Swing interactive console type
To run a specific groovy script type
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