Which maven dependency to include for evaluating groovy scripts in java application

Question

I've added the ability to parse and evaluate groovy scripts inside my java application using GroovyShell. Which maven artifact is the bare minimum to include in my build?

I know that the groovy-all will definitely contain everything I need, but I'm guessing that there is a smaller package I could use as well?

Scion

Not sure, but I think you should just need org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:2.1.6 (which gets you down to 3.3MB from 6.1MB)... I guess it depends what your scripts want to do... – Ceto

Seems you're right. I ended up depending on groovy-jsr223 and that seems to work. Half the size as you say... – Scion

Answer 1

groovy-jsr223 is the JSR-223 Engine implementation, and it support evaluation of groovy scripts via JSR-223 standard interface.

ScriptEngine scriptEngine = new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("groovy");

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
   <artifactId>groovy-jsr223</artifactId>
   <version>2.4.6</version>
</dependency>

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