Groovy Add-on¶

The Groovy Add-on allows to use the Groovy language within z2 applications. One can use pure Groovy modules beside pure Java modules as well as modules containing both Java and Groovy source code. The latter case requires a three pass compilation (called "joint compilation mode") while in the first case all modules (Java and Groovy) are compiled within one single pass.
The z2-Groovy compiler wrapper checks for each source component (i.e. java/src.api and java/src.impl) whether it contains pure Groovy source files or Java and Groovy sources and chooses the appropriate compiler.