Loading Groovy scripts as classes at runtime

gistfile1.java

public class GroovyClassloaderTest {
    @Test
    public void loadGroovyScript() throws Exception {
        CompilerConfiguration compilerConfiguration = new CompilerConfiguration();
        compilerConfiguration.setClasspath("/base/directory/containing/groovy/files");

        GroovyClassLoader gcl = new GroovyClassLoader(getClass().getClassLoader(), compilerConfiguration);

        Class<?> cls = gcl.loadClass("SampleClass", true, true, true);
    }
}