JetBrains, the makers of the award winning IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE are working on a Groovy and Grails plugins. The plugin is currently in the making and the official plugin homepage can be found on JetBrains wiki.
Download & Installation
The plugin requires IntelliJ IDEA 7 to function. Install the plugin via the IDEA plugin manager (you can find it listed as "JetGroovy"). After installing the plugin via the plugin manager, you will have to restart idea and then configure the plugin via the settings panel so that the plugin knows where to find your Groovy and (optionally) Grails installation directories.
Features
The JetGroovy plugin provides a rich set of features for both Groovy and Grails development. Here, we're listing the main features, but you can find out more on JetGroovy Groovy features page and the JetGroovy Grails features page.
Editing
- Syntax highlighting
- Error highlighting
o Unresolved classes marked as errors
o Unresolved unqualified properties marked as warnings
o Incompatible types assignments marked as warnings
o Inapplicable method calls marked as warnings - Code folding
- Code formatter
- Comments and "To Do" view support
- "add missing import" intention
- Various refactorings
- move, rename variables, etc
Execution, Debugging & Compilation
- Debugging support (setting breakpoints, view stack)
- GDK configuration
- Grails configuration
- Run configuration for Groovy scripts
- Make or rebuild java+groovy project entire
Code Completion
- context sensitive keyword completion
- Completion of methods, fields, classes
o Completion makes use of type inference
o Default methods completed
o Swing builder methods are completed, swing properties are completed in method argument list - Resolve
o Resolve groovy to groovy classes, methods, fields
o Resolve groovy to java classes, methods, fields
o Resolve java to groovy classes, methods, fields
Surround with (Alt+Ctrl+T)
- if () {} / else {}
- while () {}
- try / catch / finally
- closure {}
- (Type) expr
