1.6 Using an IDE
As we start churning out more-complex Groovy code, we’ll quickly graduate from these tools and want a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE). Fortunately, we have several to choose from. See http://groovy.codehaus.org/IDE+Support for some choices. We can edit Groovy code, run it from within an IDE, debug code, and a lot more, depending on which tool we pick.
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA offers outstanding support for Groovy in the free-of-charge community edition.[8] Using it, we can edit Groovy code, take advantage of code completion, get support for Groovy builders, use syntax and error highlighting, use code formatting and inspection, jointly compile Java and Groovy code, refactor and debug both Java and ...
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