I\'ve seen various posts on SO criticising the Eclipse Grails plugin, and am wondering if anyone has found a way to work productively with Grails within Eclipse?
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I am currently using version 3.6.4 STS. It works great. Version STS 3.7.1 has been released but I have not tried it yet. 3.6.4 works great with Grails 2.4.4. I have downloaded and installed Grails 3.0.9 and for my purposes it works just fine. Long time fan of Eclipse and I use it for UML, PHP, c++ and Java.
The Grails Eclipse Tooling available in STS is now becoming mature. I'd recommend trying this if you are still looking for a good way to develop Grails apps in Eclipse.
http://www.grails.org/STS+Integration
I installed STS as a plugin into my Helios Java EE install. Have mostly been using it for a sample Grails project as I learned Grails, but seems to work fairly well. Definitely Groovy support in Eclipse has improved dramatically in the last year.
prefer NOT to use STS - a custom Eclipse IDE for Grails. Looking to see if there is still a Grails plugin for Eclipse that would work. Using multiple projects that do not load in STS
I used to be a die-hard Eclipse fan (wouldn't even imagine that I would work on any IDE other than Eclipse). But, I had to ultimately quit Eclipse in favor of either vi or IntelliJ IDEA after getting frustrated for couple of months.
But that was almost a year back. Haven't tried it again. I have high hopes from SpringSource to improve Eclipse tooling.
Original answer (left so people's votes aren't misrepresented):
Current IDE status (as of Mar '09) for Grails dev:
It's now Dec '10, and things have changed (but not too much):
And now it's Feb '15, almost 6 years after the original question. Much has changed, but much remains the same: