Use of JAVA_OPTS in Groovy is not limited to the groovy launcher or to runtime. In the blog post Using groovyc To Compile Groovy Scripts, I discussed several advantages of explicitly using groovyc ...

Before Groovy 1.8, the standard tactic we Groovy script developers used to deal with this situation was to not define the local variables with the def keyword or with a static type declaration.

I have a maven java project with a two level hierarchy, one of the child modules uses the gmavenplus-plugin to execute some Groovy code, and among others, it's supposed to create a new file in the ...