Re: Reusing GroovyShell/GroovyClassLoader instance without the Binding

BTW a quick fix for your issue could be to use an LRUMap (or maybe 
WeakHashMap) where the key is the groovy source code as a String and 
the value is the compiled Class file. Then only compile a script if its 
not in the cache.

Getting more clever and using File/URL objects to be the key and using 
lastModified() dates would help avoid keeping lots of big strings in 
RAM :)

But this is pretty much what Sam's GroovyScriptEngine does

On 14 Jul 2004, at 05:49, Jesper Kamstrup Linnet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a situation where I have quite a few script sniplets embedded 
> in an
> XML document. Once loaded, the scripts don't change, thus eliminating 
> the
> need for recompiling. The scripts are used in a J2EE application and 
> may
> thus be run by multiple threads.
>
> I'd like to use a GroovyShell for the embedding in my Java code. My 
> question
> is: Is it possible to avoid having to reparse the scripts by keeping 
> the
> GroovyClassLoader instance (sharing it among the threads) but 
> replacing the
> Binding instance on each use. As the API on GroovyShell is now, I see 
> no
> such possibility. There are constructors to create a GroovyShell with a
> classloader (parent) and with or without a Binding, but since Groovy 
> parses
> the class with the topmost ClassLoader, as I see it there's no way of
> escaping the reparsing (which takes quite some time in my case).
>
> Currently, I've just copied a few methods from GroovyShell into my own 
> code
> and interact directly with GroovyClassLoader.parseClass, but I'd 
> rather be
> really Groovy...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jesper
>
>

James
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