Critical Description
The latest release of Groovy does not recognise public static constants defined in an interface implemented by a super class. This worked in previous versions but is broken in the latest JSR release.
The problem occurs for me as I write XWork actions in Groovy. XWork has an Action interface which defines constants for the different response types (see http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/api/com/opensymphony/xwork/Action.html)
This interface is implemented by ActionSupport (see http://www.opensymphony.com/xwork/api/com/opensymphony/xwork/ActionSupport.html). I have sub classed ActionSupport with my own class called "AbstractAction".
This is the class that is extended by my Groovy actions. However they throw errors like the below when loaded:
Caused by: script1133545392341.groovy: 29: The variable ERROR is undefined in the current scope
@ line 29, column 11.script1133545392341.groovy: 32: The variable SUCCESS is undefined in the current scope
@ line 32, column 10.
This does not make sense as these should clearly be visible given that the Groovy actions extend AbstractAction which extends ActionSupport which implements Action gasp!