spring-boot/spring-bootstrap-groovy

Spring Bootstrap Groovy

Spring Bootstrap Groovy gives you the quickest possible getting started experience with Spring apps, whether you are writing a web app, a batch job or a standalone java app.

Building and Testing

To avoid problems with classpaths and existing JVM-based build tools, Spring Bootstrap Groovy uses an exec plugin call to launch groovyc. You need to have a sh on your path along with groovyc (2.1.x), find and xargs. These tools are standard on a Mac or Linux distribution, and available using Cygwin on Windows. Once it is built, the zip file is portable.

Here are the steps to build and test:

$ mvn install

The spring executable is then available at spring-bootstrap-groovy/target/spring-<VERSION>. There is also a jar file with the Groovy Bootstrap components. The spring executable includes jars from SPRING_HOME in the classpath so you can run it while you are developing like this

$ export SPRING_HOME=<spring-bootstrap-groovy>/target
$ <spring-bootstrap-groovy>/src/main/scripts/spring App.groovy