Wiki source code of Groovy in Java EE with Maven

Version 1.1 by Ken McWilliams on 2012/04/17 06:07
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1 It is quite easy to add Groovy support. Once the support is in place you can use Groovy as you would use regular Java. As a matter of fact to test out Groovy we will create a Struts2 action with it!
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4 Following assumes we have set up a basic struts2 application using Maven:
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6 1) In Netbeans, expand the "Project Files" and open pom.xml.
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8 2a) Locate the maven compiler plugin, which in my poms typically looks like the following:
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11 <plugin>
12 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
13 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
14 <version>2.3.2</version>
15 <configuration>
16 <source>1.7</source>
17 <target>1.7</target>
18 <compilerArguments>
19 <endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
20 </compilerArguments>
21 </configuration>
22 </plugin>
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25 2b) Edit this pom.xml such that the above looks like the following:
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27 <plugin>
28 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
29 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
30 <version>2.3.2</version>
31 <configuration>
32 **~ <compilerId>groovy-eclipse-compiler</compilerId>**
33 **~ <verbose>true</verbose>**
34 <source>1.7</source>
35 <target>1.7</target>
36 </configuration>
37 **~ <dependencies>**
38 **~ <dependency>**
39 **~ <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>**
40 **~ <artifactId>groovy-eclipse-compiler</artifactId>**
41 **~ <version>2.6.0-01</version>**
42 **~ </dependency>**
43 **~ </dependencies>**
44 </plugin>