Before Groovy 1.8, the standard tactic we Groovy script developers used to deal with this situation was to not define the local variables with the def keyword or with a static type declaration.

To increase the amount of memory allocated to your groovy scripts, set your JAVA_OPTS environment variable. JAVA_OPTS=”-Xmx…” The use of JAVA_OPTS with Groovy is not limited to specifying ...