This plug-in provides access to Groovy functionality from Maven, including compiling groovy code, running groovy unit tests, running groovy scripts, invoking the groovy console, etc.

To use in any Maven project simply add dependency to maven-groovy-plugin in the Maven dependencies and invoke as any Maven plugin.

Note that there is no need to include any other dependencies on which groovy depends, including the groovy core jar itself, as these dependencies are handled by the plugin.