Learning Groovy 3: Java-Based Dynamic Scripting

© Adam L. Davis 2019

Adam L. DavisLearning Groovy 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5058-7_3

3. Tools

Adam L. Davis¹ 

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In addition to groovy, the Groovy installation comes with several helpful tools, covered in this chapter.

Console

1   groovyConsole

The Groovy Console is a quick and easy way to try things in Groovy visually without the overhead of a complete IDE.

Whenever you have an idea you want to try out quickly, open the Groovy Console, type some code, and then press Ctrl+R to run it. After reading your output and changing the code, press Ctrl+W to clear the output and Ctrl+R again to run the code. Once you get used to those two shortcuts, the Groovy Console might become an indispensable development tool.

It also has the ...