Remote Script Execution with GroovySocketServer

File under: extremely dangerous but definitely fun. Here's some directions on how to execute any arbitrary Groovy script on a remote server. We're going to write a one line Groovy script that, when run, will listen to a socket and execute any incoming text as if it were Groovy script and return the result to the client. We'll do it from the command line and programatically. The client is actually more difficult to write and weighs in at a whooping 5 lines. Let's get started.

The whole article is available on the Canoo Blog. For those inclined there is certainly a Dzone Link to upvote. And none of the URLs have dirty words in them this time!