groovy-executable-jar-with-gradle-example

Description

Example for creating a Groovy stand-alone self-executable jar with gradle.

The generated jar contains the compiled groovy script, and the groovy embeddable jar.

Having this self-executable jar, you can start the groovy script, like java -jar MyScriptAsJar.jar

How to do a test run

• Run command gradlew uberjar to execute the task uberjar
• Generated jar file is at build\libs\printer-1.0.jar
• Run command java -jar build/libs/printer-1.0.jar -p HelloGroovy to execute the jar

Alternative

• GroovyWrapper

Resource

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/378905/how-to-invoke-groovy-with-java-from-command-line
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9749032/create-a-groovy-executable-jar-with-gradle