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GServlet is an open-source project inspired by Groovlets, which aims to use the Groovy language and its provided modules to simplify Servlet API web development. Groovlets are Groovy scripts executed by a servlet. They are run on request, having the whole web context (request, response, etc.) bound to the evaluation context. They are much more suitable for smaller web applications. Compared to Java Servlets, coding in Groovy can be much simpler. It has a couple of implicit variables we can use, for example,