Configuring Groovy in Eclipse

Eclipse is a popular IDE that is taking up a big share of the IDE market for JVM-based technologies, as well as other languages and platforms. In fact, Eclipse is a huge ecosystem devoted to building tooling for different areas such as dynamic languages, reporting, testing, modeling, analysis, and so on.

Eclipse is distributed in various combinations featuring different areas. A special distribution exists that comes prepackaged with an Eclipse plugin for Groovy (code named GRECLIPSE), as well as various other useful plugins. It can be downloaded from http://grails.org/products/ggts.

However, in this recipe we will describe the installation instructions for the Eclipse plugin for Groovy assuming that it is not part ...

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