4.4. Groovy Scripts as REST Services

The following topics are covered:

4.4.1. Loading script and save it in JCR
4.4.2. Instantiation
4.4.3. Deploying newly created Class as RESTful service
4.4.4. Script Lifecycle Management
4.4.5. Getting node UUID example
4.4.6. Groovy script restrictions

This section describes how to use Groovy scripts as REST services. Consider these operations:

Load script and save it in JCR.
Instantiate script
Deploy a newly created Class as RESTful service.
Script Lifecycle Management.
Finally, we will discover simple example which can get JCR node UUID

In this section, we consider RESTful service to be compatible with JSR-311 specification. The last feature is currently available in version 1.11-SNAPSHOT.