Building Groovy from source
In this recipe, we introduce a procedure for building Groovy from the source code. The only requirement needed to build Groovy from source is Java JDK 1.7 or higher.
Java 7 is required to leverage the new invokedynamic instruction used by Groovy 2. You can read more about the benefits of invokedynamic in the Running Groovy with invokedynamic support recipe.
Getting ready
Like many of today's open source projects, Groovy source is maintained on GitHub. GitHub is a website that provides a Git hosting service. You have probably heard of Git, the version control system started by the Linux creator, Linus Torvalds.
In order to build Groovy, you need a local copy of the source code that must be fetched from GitHub via Git. If ...
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