Groovy Installation In Windows

• Download Groovy Binary From http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

• Download zip: Binary Release

• Extract Local Disk say D;\GROOVY\ groovy-2.3.9

• It contains the Folder Structure 

D:. ├───bin 

     ├───conf 

     ├───embeddable 

      ───indy 

      ├───lib 

      └───META-INF

• Go to Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts  Change My Environment Variables

• Set/new GROOVY_HOME = D:\GROOVY\groovy-2.3.9 (don’t put : semicolon)

• Set PATH = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\bin;%GROOVY_HOME%\bin;

• Add groovy-all.jar to CLASSPATH

• D:\ GROOVY\ \groovy-2.3.9\embeddable\groovy-all-2.3.9.jar;.

• Close and Open Command and Say –groovy

• For console -groovyConsole

   

  “Exception in thread ”main“ java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter” 
  
  
  For this error please make sure that above procedure done perfectly