Version 1.8.5 is the latest stable release. <=dev-java/groovy-1.7.10 in tree depend on dev-java/servletapi:2.4 but should depend on the virtual java-virtuals/servlet-api instead. Adding as a blocker of 398689.
*groovy-1.8.5 (28 Jan 2012) 28 Jan 2012; Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org> +groovy-1.8.5.ebuild, +files/groovy-1.8-build-pref-locking-fix.patch: Version Bump to latest stable.