Appendix A. Groovy Installation

This appendix contains information necessary for successfully installing and configuring Groovy in your development environment. The first step is to download Groovy as a distribution, or to get the Groovy source code if you want to build it.

Download Instructions

The official Groovy site is located at http://groovy.codehaus.org. You can download the latest distribution by following the Download link on the home page, or by visiting http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/. This URL contains both the source code and the binary distributions.

If you just want to embed Groovy in your application, you do not need the whole environment. The JAR (Java Archive) files with the Groovy implementation are located ...

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