How do I escape Java generics in Gmaven?

Question

So you are writing a groovy script with some Java in it in GMaven. In between the source tags:

<source>

...some groovy code here

List<Chicken> = new ArrayList<>()

...some more groovy code here

</source>

Problem the < and the > look like XML tag components. Is there a way to escape those and if so, what is it?

Answer 1

Yes, you can escape them with XML/HTML entities

List<Chicken> = new ArrayList<>()

Reference :
List of XML and HTML character entity references

Answer 2

Nest the code in CDATA.

Check out this: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp