Using Grails 2.0.0.M2, Cloud Foundry and the SpringSource Tool Suite

There are a lot of details in my VanDev talk tonight. Since most of what I showed you was from versions of our software not yet officially released, you are going to need to cobble together a few things to get everything working properly. Here are some instructions and links.

1. First, here is a detailed guide on using Grails 2.0.0 from inside STS. It was written for M1, but it is essentially the same. Below, I'll summarize.
   
2. Download STS 2.8.0.M1. To see 2.8.0.M1, you need to click on Other downloads.
   
3. After downloading and unzipping/installing STS, you will need to install Groovy-Eclipse and Grails Tooling. Do not install Groovy-Eclipse or Grails from the dashboard since that only points to older releases. Instead, go to the Install manager (Help -> Install new software...), and add the nightly update sites for Groovy-Eclipse and Grails Tooling:
   
   • Nightly Grails Tooling update site:
     http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/nightly/e3.7
   • Nightly Groovy-Eclipse update site. Make sure to also install the Groovy 1.8 compiler:
     http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.7/
     
   Use these sites to install the software.
4. Next, download Grails 2.0.0.M2.
   
5. Once downloaded and unzipped, you can install the Grails distribution into STS.
   

If you want to play around with Cloud Foundry:

1. First install the CloudFoundry tools from the STS dashboard.
   
2. Then sign up for a CloudFoundry account.
   
3. There's lots of information on the cloudfoundry.com site as well as the community site. Here's more on using Cloud Foundry in STS
   

Here is some more information on DSL Descriptors in Groovy-Eclipse, and also a general description of our approach to integrating the Groovy and Java compilers inside of Groovy-Eclipse.

Support

If you have any questions of problems with STS or Groovy-Eclipse, please visit the forum. However, Groovy-Eclipse questions may be answered more quickly on the mailing list. Bugs can be reported here: Groovy-Eclipse and STS.

AJDT 2.1.3 Released

The AJDT team is proud to release AJDT 2.1.3. This release is the first one targeting Indigo (Eclipse 3.7) and it contains AspectJ 1.6.12.M1. The update sites are here:

For Indigo:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/37/update

For Helios:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ajdt/36/update

Please send any feedback to one of the mailing lists or raise an issue
on Bugzilla.

Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1 Released

The Groovy-Eclipse team is proud to release Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1. This release is now available for install using the update sites here:

for Eclipse Indigo:

http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/

for Eclipse Helios:

http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.6/

In this release, we have continued to work on our DSLD support (and we
ship with some useful DSLD scripts). Additionally, we have a GA
release of the groovy-eclipse-compiler-plugin for Maven. Now that
Indigo has been released, the 3.7 stream of Groovy-Eclipse will become
the main development branch. For now, we will continue to support the
3.6 stream of Groovy-Eclipse and will put out at least one more
release.

You can find all the details at our New & Noteworthy page.

Please send feedback here or raise an issue on our issuetracker.

Vancouver Eclipse Demo Camp 2011

In honor of the Indigo release of Eclipse, I will be hosting the annual Eclipse Demo camp in Vancouver on Monday, June 27. The demo camp is co-sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation, VMWare, and Tasktop.

We're expecting a full house as well as lots of exciting talks, including one on Groovy/Grails support in Eclipse and the SpringSource Tool Suite, a talk from Tasktop, and a talk about the Eclipse Modelling Framework from Ed Merks, the project lead.

If you are in the Vancouver area and interested in attending, please add your name to the wiki:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php?title=Eclipse_DemoCamps_Indigo_2011/Vancouver

Alternatively, contact me directly (or on this blog) and I'll add you myself. Hope to see you there!

Slides from Gr8conf Europe 2011

Here are the slides from my Gr8Conf Europe presentation.

Better DSL Support for Groovy-Eclipse

View more presentations from Andrew Eisenberg

Unfortunately, the animations didn't make the conversion to SlideShare, but these slides will give you an idea of what I talked about. I can also post the sample projects that I showed during the talk.

Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.0 Released

The SpringSource Tools Team is proud to release Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.0. In this release, we are most proud of our new DSL Descriptors (DSLDs) feature, which provides scriptable support for custom Domain Specific Languages in the Groovy Editor. Additionally, this release includes Groovy 1.8 as an optional add on, better content assist and type inferencing, and a Groovier outline view.

See all details on the New and Noteworthy page, and please send your comments to the mailing list. Enjoy!

Better DSL Support for Groovy-Eclipse

What have I been doing lately? Mostly working on Groovy-Eclipse's new DSLD feature to support custom Groovy DSLs more easily. See my post about that on the SpringSource blog.