Friday 6 April 2012

Installing Groovy plugin in Eclipse



1. find out eclipse version:

go to Help->AboutEclipse-> Installation Details (this button may not be present on all versions).
if it is present click on it. Go to Installed Software Tab and expand the tree, the child Eclipse Platform
gives the version number.

2. For manually installing Groovy Plugin, go to :

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy-Eclipse+2.6.1+New+and+Noteworthy

and download the zip file compatible with your version of eclipse.

3. Open eclipse and go to Help->Install New Software
    Provide the path where downloaded zip file resides. give some name to the name text box.
   choose Required components and click ok. If it fails try unchecking optional component and try again.



Eclipse restart will be required for the install to take effect.

Note: do not try to copy unzipped files to eclipse Plugin or Dropin folder, it no longer works.
4. Create a Groovy Project as specified here:

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin