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Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin

Reputation: 5741

Installing Groovy 1.8 on Spring Tool Suite 3.6.1

I have Spring Tool Suite 3.6.1, which is based on Eclipse 4.4.

I installed the version of Grails I need, but I noticed that the Groovy compiler is at 2.3, whereas I need it to be at 1.8.

I've gone to dist.springsource.org on the Eclipse Marketplace to look for the Compiler 1.8. I can install it, but it automatically uninstalls the existing Grails IDE. On top of that, it doesn't appear under Preferences - Groovy - Compiler and I don't seem to be able to select it.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to use an earlier version of the Spring Tool Suite to access this particular compiler?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2743

Answers (1)

Andy Clement
Andy Clement

Reputation: 2560

I'd recommend using the snapshot update site to get the latest groovy-eclipse: http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.4/

That includes the 1.8 compiler and the latest groovy-eclipse 2.9.1 builds that work with it - the 2.9.0 release had trouble with groovy 1.8. (But 1.8 is getting quite old now so we may drop support in the not too distant future).

That snapshot build should also be compatible with grails-ide, not sure why it would be uninstalling grails-ide (but remember that grails-ide is different to the grails-runtime - have you definitely installed both from the dashboard extensions page or just the runtime?)

Upvotes: 3

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