Summary
By default Groovy is not included within any release of Java. Due to this it means that you would need to download the relevant files and place these within Jira/lib. Below are the methods of how to install.
To our knowledge it is currently not possible to install Groovy into Java
Install into Jira/lib
Java 8
Download the Groovy distribution (must contain an embeddable runtime .jar file) - https://archive.apache.org/dist/groovy/3.0.0-alpha-1/distribution/apache-groovy-binary-3.0.0-alpha-1.zip
Extract the contents of the zip file
Copy ./groovy-3.0.0-alpha-1/embeddable/groovy-all-3.0.0-alpha-1.jar and place within
<jira_install_directory>/lib folder
Java 11 / Java 17
Currently this method is not working correctly with Java 17 within JEMH 4.1.2+, as it is resulting in an exception when scripting features are used. We will update this page with the fixed version.
Download the Relevant Groovy files, can be downloaded by using the following:
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/groovy/groovy/4.0.17/groovy-4.0.17.jar wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/groovy/groovy-xml/4.0.17/groovy-xml-4.0.17.jar wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/groovy/groovy-jsr223/4.0.17/groovy-jsr223-4.0.17.jar
Note: Updated above links to download the current latest Groovy version.
Copy these downloaded files into
<jira_install_directory>/lib folderRestart Jira
Once installed you should then see that Groovy is listed as a Detected Script Engine within JEMH > Extensions > Detected Script Engines.
