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Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition

By : Fergal Dearle
Book Image

Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition

By: Fergal Dearle

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Groovy for Domain-specific Languages Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to DSLs and Groovy
Index

The Groovy IDE and editor integration


If you are going to do any amount of serious Groovy coding, you will want to work with Groovy in your favorite IDE.

NetBeans

Of the popular IDE environments, NetBeans was the first to provide built-in Groovy support. From NetBeans 6.5 onwards, Groovy support is available from within any of the Java bundles without any additional plugins being required. By default, you have excellent Groovy source editing with syntax highlighting, source folding, and code completion. You can mix and match Groovy with Java in your projects, or build a full Groovy on Grails-based project from scratch. You can download the latest NetBeans installation from https://netbeans.org/downloads/.

Eclipse

Eclipse was the first Java IDE to have Groovy support integrated through the Groovy-Eclipse plugin. You can install the Groovy-Eclipse plugin from the update site at http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.5/.

The Groovy-Eclipse plugin has full support for source-level Groovy...