We have a couple dozen java projects with a maven build and eclipse as IDE. Now I want to add support for groovy in these projects so inevitably I got to the gmaven plugin for the integration. Unfortunately, gmaven seems abandoned for now (no updates to the website and virtually no activity in JIRA).
Considering that groovy, maven and eclipse are mature software and mixed java/groovy projects aren't that uncommon, I would expect to have a solid solution for the integration. I know that some people moved their builds to gradle, but I'm reluctant to make such major change just for adding groovy support to our projects.
So how do the rest of you deal with mixed groovy/java projects in a maven/eclipse environment? What tool chain does the groovy community recommend?
Note: I was somehow able to get gmaven working with groovy 1.8 with the help of some source code fix from the JIRA, but I do not consider this to be a solid strategy for the future.
I had trouble with gmaven when I tried it a few months back, and ended up going with the Groovy Eclipse Compiler plugin for Maven:
Here is a link to my project if you want to see an example POM using this plugin: https://github.com/countvajhula/pilot
HTH