Comments on: Developing Grails Apps in Eclipse

By: Daniel Serodio

Daniel Serodio — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:45:35 +0000

@Matt, awesome news! I really hope the make the Grails support free-as-in-speech thou

By: Matt Passell

Matt Passell — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:11:58 +0000

@Daniel: STS wasn’t free, but it is now – http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/07/springsource-tool-suite-now-free/

By: Daniel Serodio

Daniel Serodio — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:43:09 +0000

@Fanny, STS is not free, so unfortunately Grails support in STS won’t benefit the majority of the Grails community.

By: KarlL

KarlL — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:26:48 +0000

Actually there is only one IDE exists with _very good_ Groovy/Grails support atm., which is IntelliJ IDEA.
Bad points: propertary, gsp/groovy syntax coloring looks _really_ awful. There is a 30 day trial tho.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:11:49 +0000

@Matt – Yeah that’s a tough call; the unit tests are nice and easy to write with grails, but it definitely takes a little extra work to get it going in eclipse, and if your decision is on the line… I get it.

@Fanny – My company is a partner of SpringSource, and I’ve been hearing about this for the last few months. It could not come soon enough! You know it’s going to happen- Grails is an awesome framework after all. I love using it, except for the eclipse support. In fact I almost switched back to emacs, except their groovy modes are not any better.

By: Fanny Aenvie

Fanny Aenvie — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:23:13 +0000

This is from the groovy-mailing-list:

“Since a few weeks ago, one of SpringSource Eclipse experts is working
almost full time on the Groovy Eclipse plugin.
So we should see important progress pretty rapidly. ”

There are some rumours that springsource
will add groovy/grails-support to its STS.

By: Matt Passell

Matt Passell — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:09:09 +0000

Yeah, it’s pretty frustrating, isn’t it? I use NetBeans when doing my own Groovy/Grails work, but I also work in Java for a client where all the development happens in Eclipse. I’d love to introduce Groovy unit tests to the project, but the Groovy support in Eclipse is weak enough it might just be a turn off.

–Matt