Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1 New and Noteworthy

The 2.5.1 release is about a month after the 2.5.0 release, which as been a shorter release cycle than normal. Because of this, there have been fewer enhancements compared to previous releases. That being said, we have focussed on our DSL descriptor support: fixing a few bugs, increasing performance, and ensuring that some standard DSLDs are available on install.

You can use the following update site sto install this release.

Groovy-Eclipse update site for Eclipse 3.7 and 3.6 For Eclipse 3.7: http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/ For Eclipse 3.6: http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.6/

And a zipped version of the update site is available at:

Zipped Groovy-Eclipse update site for Eclipse 3.7 and 3.6 For Eclipse 3.7: http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.6/XXXXXXXXXX For Eclipse 3.6: http://dist.springsource.org/release/GRECLIPSE/e3.7/XXXXXXXXXX You can install from the zip by pointing your Eclipse update manager to the downloaded zip file and following the installation instructions.

Although we will continue to support the Eclipse 3.6-based version of Groovy-Eclipse, the 3.7-based version will now be the main branch of our development.

Outline

groovy-eclipse-compiler for Maven

We have released the groovy-eclipse-compiler for Maven that let's you use the Groovy-Eclipse compiler in your maven projects. This provides a more robust way of compiling mixed Groovy-Java projects with Maven than previous approaches have allowed. See all the documentation at the Groovy-Eclipse compiler plugin for Maven page.

DSL Descriptor enhancements

Most of the DSLD enhancements are centered around sharing DSLD files among multiple projects in the workspace.

Groovy DSL Support classpath container

All Groovy projects will have the Groovy DSL Support classpath container added automatically. No production code is in the classpath container. It is only meant to contain DSLD files. Inside, there are two class folders: global_dsld_support and plugin_dsld_support, described below.

Global DSLDs

The global_dsld_support folder points to {{$

/.groovy/greclipse/global_dsld_support}}. It is meant to contain DSLDs that should be shared amongst all projects in the workspace. You can place any DSLD files here and it will be picked up by Groovy-Eclipse. Actually, it's not that easy...because of Eclipse Bug 346928, you must go to Preferences -> Groovy -> DSLD and click Recompile before the new scripts will be found:

Plugin DSLDs

Multiple DSLDs of same name

Disabling DSLD support

What to expect for the future of DSLDs

Built-in AST transforms recognized in the editor

Launch configurations

Compatibility

Groovy-Eclipse 2.5.1 includes Groovy 1.7.10 by default. Groovy 1.8.0 can be optionally installed. Groovy-Eclipse is installable on STS 2.7.0, Eclipse 3.7.0, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, or 3.6.2. There are different update sites for Groovy-Eclipse targeting Eclipse 3.6 and 3.7. See above for the update sites.

Bug fixes

There have been 30 bug fixes in this release. You can see all of them in the Codehaus issue tracker.

What's next?

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