My favorite use of Groovy is to write simple scripts that rely on Java classes or other features of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on which Groovy is running. The reduced ceremony approach of Groovy ...

My most common use of Groovy is for writing scripts. As such, I enjoy its characteristics that enable an improved script development experience, but I also notice features of Groovy that are less than ...

Various Jenkins plugins require that users define custom scripts, most commonly in the Groovy language, to customize Jenkins’s behavior. If everyone who writes these scripts is a Jenkins administrator ...

However, if some script authors are “regular users” with only more limited permissions, such as Job/Configure, it is inappropriate to let them run arbitrary scripts. To support such a division of ...