Paul Krill
Editor at Large

JetBrains extends IDE to Groovy, Grails

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Aug 13, 20071 min

JetBrains announced Monday a public preview of the JetGroovy Plugin, enabling Groovy and Grails developers to leverage the company's IntelliJ Idea IDE. Productivity features of IntelliJ become accessible by Groovy and Grails programmers. Capabilities available include: * Context-sensitive code completion with resolution of symbols between Groovy and Java. * Syntax highlighting, code formatting and folding. * Err

JetBrains announced Monday a public preview of the JetGroovy Plugin, enabling Groovy and Grails developers to leverage the company’s IntelliJ Idea IDE.

Productivity features of IntelliJ become accessible by Groovy and Grails programmers. Capabilities available include:

* Context-sensitive code completion with resolution of symbols between Groovy and Java.

* Syntax highlighting, code formatting and folding.

* Error highlighting, including unresolved classes, unresolved unqualified properties, incompatible type assignments and method calls.

* Auto-insertion of imports statements.

* Refactorings, advanced navigation and views.

* Automatic generators for Grails controllers.

Users of the IntelliJ Idea 7.0 Milestone 2 release can use the JetGroovy Plugin preview, which is downloadable here. The final release is due by the end of the year.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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