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DZone > Java Zone > Using groovy scripts in your application deployment

Using groovy scripts in your application deployment

Pavel Bernshtam user avatar by
Pavel Bernshtam
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Jun. 26, 12 · Java Zone · Interview
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We distribute our application as tar.gz on Linux.
Our server is actually jetty with our web application, but we want to make some checks before the server start in order to provide clear error messages w/o need for a user to scan log files.  So I wrote the server start script in groovy and packed groovy installation (and JRE as well) into the application distribution.
The problem was, however, that groovy script can't run by itself (like shell script), so I wrapped the script into the shell script.

Assuming that our installation looks like
tools/jre
tools/groovy
server/bin/myscript
server/groovy/myscript.groovy
server/groovy/SomeClass.groovy
lib/myjar.jar
the shell script "myscript" will looks like:
#!/bin/sh

server_bindir=`/usr/bin/dirname $0`; 
server_bindir=`(cd $server_bindir;pwd)`; #get absolute path
server_dir=`dirname $server_bindir`;
server_groovy_dir=$server_dir/groovy

install_home=$server_dir/..;
jars_dir=$install_home/lib


JAVA_HOME=$install_home/tools/jre
export JAVA_HOME


$install_home/groovy/bin/groovy -cp $server_lib_dir:$jars_dir/myjar.jar $server_lib_dir/myscript.groovy  $* 
application Groovy (programming language)

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