Grails Eclipse plugin

Question

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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Answer 1

I've been experimenting with the NetBeans 6.7 release candidate after reading over the Eclipse documentation. So far it is a pretty nice way to work with Grails. You do have to configure your own hotkeys and such so that running your tests can be done in 2 key strokes.

I am having trouble with some of the claimed enhancements. My code completion isn't working on my own methods, that's the single most annoying thing so far (at least, that isn't just a consequence of me being used to statically typed Java). I need t figure out how to execute just a single test etc.

As someone that used NetBeans 7 and 8 years ago, I like what I see a lot better now. I ran screaming to Eclipse back in 03, but Netbeans seems to have matured quite a lot.