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Harshana
Harshana

Reputation: 7647

groovy plugin for eclipse

what is the best goovy plugin for eclipse (helios)? I have download Groovy-Eclipse but the plug-in seems not good? cant go to methods by clicking ctrl and also cant debug too

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8461

Answers (4)

Al Baker
Al Baker

Reputation: 534

Since SpringSource / VMWare embraced the Grails and Groovy community, SpringSource Toolsuite (STS) has really increased the quality and integration of Groovy into the Eclipse environment. If you haven't looked at it recently, STS 2.7.0 was just released, and it includes support for Gradle, Groovy 1.8, and initial support for Grails 1.4 / 2.0. Groovy-Eclipse is the bundled Groovy solution, and enables the Groovy compiler, Groovy project types, as well as a number of other areas.

It's also important to note that the development is going at a pretty good place - some of the standard editing features are fixed month to month as dot releases are released often.

Intellij is also continuing to provide a great solution - but now that the Eclipse support is improving, there are two viable choices for developers to look at.

STS is available for Eclipse 3.6 and 3.7.

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Eisenberg
Andrew Eisenberg

Reputation: 28737

Groovy-Eclipse is your only option for editing groovy code in Eclipse.

Since the behavior you describe that is missing is a fundamental part of Groovy-Eclipse (ie- navigation to method declarations), it sounds like something is not set-up properly in your project. Perhaps your groovy sources are not on the Eclipse build path of your project. Make sure this is the case and let me know if this fixes your problem.

Upvotes: 1

Dónal
Dónal

Reputation: 187499

The best Eclipse Groovy/Grails support is provided by the STS Eclipse distribution. If you're not using Grails and are only interested in Groovy I don't think you'll find this much better than the Groovy-Eclipse plugin, because I expect STS itself uses the Groovy-Eclipse plugin.

The best Groovy/Grails support is provided by IntelliJ. Eclipse has always been a long way behind.

Upvotes: 3

Urs Reupke
Urs Reupke

Reputation: 6921

Unfortunately, groovy-eclipse is the best there is. If you want to improve your experience, I can only recommend switching to IntelliJ IDEA.

Upvotes: 1

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