Dumping the Maven Groovy Plugin
Posted on March 19, 2008 by Scott Leberknight
On my current project we are using Maven2 (yeah, yeah I know) which I become less and less happy with over time. That's not the point of this blog though. The point is that we have been using the Groovy Maven Plugin for a few months now to compile tests written in Groovy. The project is a Java project but several months ago we started writing new tests entirely in Groovy. This has worked nicely for a while, until today in one test I wanted to use a static import, which Groovy 1.5.x supports just fine. Unfortunately it seems the Groovy Maven Plugin uses a much earlier version of Groovy which doesn't support static imports. After a lot of fiddling around trying to get the plugin to work, we simply gave up and went with using the Maven Ant plugin to compile the Groovy code instead. It actually works and now we know for sure that we are using Groovy version 1.5.4.