Development status of the Eclipse Grails-IDE plugin?

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I understand the Eclipse plugin Groovy Development Tools is still being maintained by the Pivotal teams, as a release version was released on January 6, 2020. Unfortunately, this plugin does not provide Grails support and overview details on Eclipse Marketplace state how I quote:

TEM does not provide any direct support for Grails. If you want Grails Tooling, then Please consider Groovy-Grails Tools Suite or spring-Projects/grails-ide for your Grails Projects.

Translating into Portuguese:

TEM does not provide any direct support for Grails. If you want Grails tools, consider Groovy-Grails Tools Suite or spring-Projects/grails-ide for your Grails projects.

My installation of Eclipse is the latest, the 4.14 currently, with several plug-ins that are based on the same version, such as Redhat Codeready, for example, so downgrade to Eclipse Juno and find a compatible version for each of the plugins I use is not an option. Also, buying Intellij has not been authorized and Netbeans is by far the least used IDE currently to get help from the community.

That said, I had one last option that was spring-Projects/grails-ide, But when I downloaded this URL, I discovered that the last commit was on March 20, 2019, almost a year ago, which leads me to believe that the latest release release is not ready for Eclipse 4.14. Also, I can’t find the plug-in overview on the Eclipse Marketplace.

  1. Someone knows information about this plugin?
  2. Still being maintained currently? Otherwise, what are the latest versions of Eclipse and Grails supported?
  3. Someone suggests an alternate plugin to work with Grails and Eclipse that has syntax highlighting (Highlighting syntax), code assist (code Completion, intelissence) and allows you to use a grails compiler to see possible syntax problems in the development phase?

It’s not about which IDE or plugin is best, I just need guidance as I haven’t worked much with Grails for a long time and now it’s time to go back.

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I believe the plugin will no longer be maintained by the team. There is a comment in a spring-ide archive site reporting the fact:

The original team that created grails-ide is not Currently Working on it but we are happy to help anyone trying to pick up the code and run with it. There is no Planned Future GGTS Distribution release (that is an eclipse distro with grails-ide Embedded). We would probably find time to merge pull requests if they Were Forthcoming.

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Analyzing the commit tree, the most relevant ones were performed in 2015 and after that there were no major changes.

As a suggestion, I want to leave the experience of more than 8 years working with Grails at Intellij IDEA. It’s a platform without comparisons and since then I’ve been keeping my license up to date. It’s worth every penny invested.

  • Intellij was not allowed to buy the license, unfortunately.

  • @Philippegioseffi looking here for other alternatives, I noticed that Netbeans has Grails support. I don’t know if it’s upgraded to support Grails 4, but it might be worth downloading and testing. https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/grails-quickstart_pt_BR.html

  • I’ll even look, but as I said in the question itself, Netbeans today is almost no longer used for community support if needed, but it sure is worth looking at.

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