Getting Groovy with Maven

The problem:

You would like to integrate Groovy scripts into your Maven application.

The solution:

Maven has a plug-in for groovy! You should put your scripts into "src/main/groovy", and test scripts into "src/test/groovy". To make groovy compile add this plug-in definition to your pom:

 <build>
   ...
   <plugins>
     <plugin>
       <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
       <artifactId>groovy-maven-plugin</artifactId>
       <executions>
         <execution>
           <goals>
             <goal>compile</goal>
           </goals>
         </execution>
       </executions>
     </plugin>
   </plugins>
   ...
 </build>

and then this dependency:

<dependency>
 <groupId>groovy</groupId>
 <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
 <version>1.0-jsr-04</version>
</dependency>

Thats all there is to it! Now go script up a storm.