jar - Creating own groovy library

Question

Do anyone have an idea whats the best way of creating an own library for groovy.

I have several methods which i just dont want copy and paste into all my groovy scripts.

The perfect solution would be to do it by an

import myownmethods

How to create the library myownmethods.jar?

Thanks for any answer and solution

Cheers

Answer 1

The simplest method is to compile your groovy files with groovyc and then package them into a jar file with jar. For example:

groovyc -d classes myclasses.groovy
jar cvf myclasses.jar -C classes .

I'd also consider looking at gradle. To get started, you can use a build.gradle containing just:

apply plugin: 'groovy'

Then put your source files in a subdirectory called src/main/groovy and run gradle jar. It will build your source files into a jar file in build/libs.