In this chapter, we will jump straight into getting you up and running with the language on your computer. We will explore the various ways you can get Groovy installed and running on your environment, and look at how we make use of the various tools that come packaged in the Groovy installation:
We will start out with a section on using GVM. This is definitely the preferred mechanism for installing Groovy and a host of other Groovy-related tools.
We will follow this with a section on how to find the Groovy binaries and install them on your system.
The next section will guide you through running Groovy scripts by using the various shell tools provided with the Groovy download.
Most of you will be using one of the popular IDE environments, so we'll look at the various integration options for the popular IDEs and programmer's editors.