What is groovy in jenkins

Question

While going through pipeline tutorial i stumbled upon groovy. What exactly does it do in jenkins?

Answer 1

Groovy is the default scripting language that is being utilized being developed from JMeter Version 3.1.

Presently Apache Groovy is the dynamic object-oriented programming language that is utilized as a scripting language for the Java stage. 

Apache Groovy accompanies some valuable highlights, for example, Java Compatibility and Development Support. The groovy module adds the capacity to straightforwardly execute Groovy code.

To arrange accessible Groovy installation on your framework, go to Jenkins setup page, discover area 'Groovy' and fill the structure as appeared.

On the off chance that you don't arrange any Groovy establishment and select (Default) choice in a job, the module will fall back into considering only the groove order, accepting you have awesome paired on the default way on a given machine.