Welcome to Groovy and Grails in NetBeans IDE!

Plugins for Groovy and Grails are currently under development. Here is an overview of what you can currently do with Groovy and Grails in NetBeans IDE, as well as instructions for getting started.

How To Get Started

In development build of NetBeans you can go to Tools->Plugins and search for ‘groovy’. Then select found item and press Install.

How To Submit Issues

Submit issues under top-level Component 'groovy' in NetBeans Issuezilla.

Where Are The Open Tasks?

See the Development Page.

How to set Java SE project to build also Groovy sources?

Having support for Groovy in Java SE projects is as easy as adding first Groovy class into project or enabling Groovy support in project properties.

What You Can Already Do With Our Plugins

Don't forget to set Groovy and Grails homes in Groovy options category

Project wizard for Grails

Note that the Groovy wizard does not exist in more recent builds, just create a JavaSE project and create .groovy files within that, they will be recognised.

Grails project support (open existing or create new, wizards for some Grails components, run project)

Groovy project support (create, run project, execute script)

Groovy editor (basic coloring, formatting, bracket completion)

GSP editor (coloring, highlighting of GSP tags, expressions and scriptlets)

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