groovy: how to compile and run a groovy-pogramm stand alone

 Hi,

as groovy is interpreted (better: compiled every time) as it runs,
I found a nice idea, to compile the programm and let it run.

for the complete solution, look at  :
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/WrappingGroovyScript

very easy going

 fest@maxdata:~/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand> groovy wrapper.groovy -c -m pdf
     [echo] Compiling pdf.groovy
      [jar] Building jar: /home/fest/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand/pdf.jar
     [echo] Run script using: 'java -jar pdf.jar ...'
fest@maxdata:~/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand>
fest@maxdata:~/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand>
fest@maxdata:~/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand> java -jar pdf.jar 1 2 3
Anzahl Argumente 3
Usage:  pdf  Gutachten-nr  Datei  Zeile1  Zeile
fest@maxdata:~/intranet/htdocs/gutacht/versand>

This is the wrapper.groovy

/*
 * Copyright 2002-2007 the original author or authors.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

/**
 * Wrap a script and groovy jars to an executable jar
 */
def cli = new CliBuilder()
cli.h( longOpt: 'help', required: false, 'show usage information' )
cli.d( longOpt: 'destfile', argName: 'destfile', required: false, args: 1, 'jar destintation filename, defaults to {mainclass}.jar' )
cli.m( longOpt: 'mainclass', argName: 'mainclass', required: true, args: 1, 'fully qualified main class, eg. HelloWorld' )
cli.c( longOpt: 'groovyc', required: false, 'Run groovyc' )

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def opt = cli.parse(args)
if (!opt) { return }
if (opt.h) {
  cli.usage();
  return
}

def mainClass = opt.m
def scriptBase = mainClass.replace( '.', '/' )
def scriptFile = new File( scriptBase + '.groovy' )
if (!scriptFile.canRead()) {
   println "Cannot read script file: '${scriptFile}'"
   return
}
def destFile = scriptBase + '.jar'
if (opt.d) {
  destFile = opt.d
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def ant = new AntBuilder()

if (opt.c) {
  ant.echo( "Compiling ${scriptFile}" )
  org.codehaus.groovy.tools.FileSystemCompiler.main( [ scriptFile ] as String[] )
}

def GROOVY_HOME = new File( System.getenv('GROOVY_HOME') )
if (!GROOVY_HOME.canRead()) {
  ant.echo( "Missing environment variable GROOVY_HOME: '${GROOVY_HOME}'" )
  return
}

ant.jar( destfile: destFile, compress: true, index: true ) {
  fileset( dir: '.', includes: scriptBase + '*.class' )

  zipgroupfileset( dir: GROOVY_HOME, includes: 'embeddable/groovy-all-*.jar' )
  zipgroupfileset( dir: GROOVY_HOME, includes: 'lib/commons*.jar' )
  // add more jars here

  manifest {
    attribute( name: 'Main-Class', value: mainClass )
  }
}

ant.echo( "Run script using: \'java -jar ${destFile} ...\'" )