You can use Polyglot-Maven [1] with Maven if you want to use a programming language syntax atop the XML. Polyglot-Maven enables not only Groovy, but also Ruby,

You can use Polyglot-Maven [1] with Maven if you want to use a programming language syntax atop the XML. Polyglot-Maven enables not only Groovy, but also Ruby, Clojure, or Scala to be used with Maven. [1] https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven