How to find and install Groovy from binaries

The Groovy project is hosted at http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html and can be downloaded as a ZIP archive or a platform-specific installer for Windows and certain Linux distributions. At the time of writing this book, the latest version of the language available is Groovy 2.4.4.

In five simple steps, you can run Groovy and start experimenting with the language:

1. Download the latest build from http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html.
2. Unzip the archive into a directory on your computer.
3. Set an environment variable in your command line or shell for GROOVY_HOME. This should point to the base directory to which you unzipped the archive.
4. Add the Groovy bin directory to your PATH. This will be %GROOVY_HOME%\bin (Windows) or $GROOVY_HOME/bin on Linux and Unix systems.
5. Open a new command shell and test your setup by issuing the Groovy version command groovy -v.

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Windows users can also make use of the Windows Installer, which can be found at http://www...