Shebang! Birth of a Groovy script

For a few days I have been browsing through Groovy in Action and wanted to give the Groovy a try. So what should I code? I was busy with other stuff and while I was setting up a wicket project at home I wondered….what was the mvn wicket-quickstart syntax again?! I could have just pasted the command from the wicket site, but I decided to let Groovy handle this one. My first Groovy script was born. Nothing fancy, the script reads an artifactId and groupId from standard input and prods maven to create a quickstart project. It’s really nothing but a thin wrapper around the maven command.

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