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Installing the JDK and Groovy - Groovy Tutorial
From the course: Learning Groovy
Installing the JDK and Groovy
- [Instructor] Groovy compiles source code to Java bytecode. For that very reason you will have to have the Java development toolkit installed on your machine. Please download the JDK for your operating system. And install it as demonstrated in the course java_8_essential_training. You can pick any distribution of the JDK you like. A good start is to pick the OpenJDK. An open source GPL License JDK. You can use this distribution to build and run commercial products for free. I also recommend installing the latest long-term support release. At the time of creating this video, the latest LTS release is Java 11. If you are a Java developer, you'll already have JDK installed on your machine. Once a JDK is available on your machine, installing Groovy is straightforward. The Groovy project provides various installation methods, but we'll focus on the binary distribution bundled as a zip file. Download the latest stable…
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