Netbeans 8 works quite well with Grails. I can click New Project to create a new Grails project. Netbeans 8 can show the project with Domain, Controller, Views folders on the left nicely. I can even debug the project with breakpoint. Netbeans 8 only works well with Grails 2. But at lease it can show the project folder structures nicely with newer versions of Grails like 4 and 5.
Netbeans 14 is missing all of these with/without the default Groovy plugin. It can't even open a simple Helloworld Grails project I create using the grails create-app helloworld command.
I googled Netbeans and Grails but the posts were quite outdated from many years ago. They said to use the Netbeans 8 Groovy plugin.
Is there any updated way to setup Netbeans 14 to work with Grails?
I attached 2 pictures. One is how it looks with 14. The other is how it looks with 8.
Unfortunately, I think the answer to your question is that Netbeans 14 does not support Grails. It's tough to prove a negative, but there is very strong circumstantial evidence of that being the case:
If you go to the homepage for Apache NetBeans there is a Plugins menu entry,and clicking that yields a list of the 62 available plugins. If you search that list list for "Grails" nothing is returned, so there is no "official" plugin for Grails.
Within NetBeans 14, if you select Tools > Plugins and search the Installed and Available Plugins tabs for "Grails", nothing is returned.
If you review the "What's Changed" entries for NetBeans 14 there is no mention of Grails.
Note this comment from GeertJan Wielenga, Release Manager for Apache NetBeans in 2019 (emphasis mine): "I would recommend to keep the name at Groovy, because otherwise when we re-add support for Grails, we’ll need to call it ‘Groovy, Gradle, and Grails’. And anyway both Gradle and Grails derive from Groovy, so keeping the name Groovy makes sense."
Notes:
For some releases since NetBeans 8.2 it has been possible to add Grails support using the old 8.2 plugin (e.g. this answer), but the approaches were brittle, and did not offer any functionality beyond that available in NetBeans 8.2. I suppose you could try a similar workaround to get Grails running on NetBeans 14, as described in SO answers for other NetBeans releases, but stability might be an issue.
For what it's worth, Intellij IDEA provides a Grails plugin, though I haven't tried it.
Finally, Grails not working in NetBeans 14 should not be viewed as a NetBeans issue. Instead, it's a third-party plugin issue, and as far as I know there has been no development on the 8.2 plugin you are currently using for years. (That said, it would be helpful if the NetBeans documentation for each release formally stated any new functionality, and any functionality that was no longer supported, or no longer worked.)
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Yesterday I tried to create a Vaadin project as described under https://vaadin.com/framework/get-started
I did it that way because the current eclipse plugin doesn't support greating Vaadin 8 projects.
Then I imported the project using Eclipse Import->Existing Maven Projects.
THis worked almost fine - only when starting the project using "Debug on Server" the Browser cannot connect to the application, although the application seems to be loaded.
When using mvn clean install and deploying the war manually this works.
What is missing there? Is there currently a good way of using Vaadin 8 with Eclipse?
Apparently this is more of an eclipse configuration question.
The context root can be changed using the projects Properties->Web Project Settings.
I would already use Vaadin together with spring-boot. On spring site they do have also a nice initializer tool to create your project: https://start.spring.io/ (Vaadin 8 is already used)
Also very helpful: http://vaadin.github.io/spring-tutorial/
The big advantage of using spring for me is the dependency injection, which simplifies the project setup.
I'm rather new to grails and I'm about to start a new grails project. I'm very confused with what version to go with based on the tools not being ready to support the newest version. I've read version 3 was a complete rewrite from ground up which my gut says should be the version to go with considering the project is brand new, but I'm discovering none of the tools are ready for version 3.
I was successfully able to get version 3 up with intellij with out grails support and the same goes for ggts.
With that being said, I don't know how to run the app in ggts since grails-runapp doesn't work
with ggts, I used the following tutorial https://tedvinke.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/grails-3-released-installing-gradle-and-groovy-2-4-support-in-eclipseggts/ but I've been able to figure out how to get the app to run. Does anybody know how to do this?
My questions are
How do I run a Grails 3 app in GGTS.
Is it recommended to use Grails 3 at this point or should I use Grails 2
If you use Grails 3, what is the recommended IDE?
With Intellij I had to run it by going to the grails-app/init project run main. Is this the correct way to do it?
As of Grails 3 you don't need a special IDE To run Grails 3 application. all you need to do is to right-click on the Application class and execute to start your Grails application. To read more about IDE integration https://grails.github.io/grails-doc/latest/guide/introduction.html
Currently, not all plugins are upgraded to Grails 3. So if your project depends on some plugins that are not already upgraded this will be an issue. For example spring security is not upgraded yet, but there is a work around to use it.https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/grails-dev-discuss/spring$20security/grails-dev-discuss/jOF0jw_BiCs/tOxd0NZpaxkJ
Finally, both Intellij community edition and GGTS supports Grails3. But if you want special grails features like GSP syntax highlighting use GGTS or IDEA Ultimate edition.
IntelliJ idea 15 is out. Try that. The support for Grails 3 is built in.
Choose Grails 3 instead of Grails 1/2 in project selection.
I have 6 projects running Grails 2 for over 1 year.
So far I have not encountered any need to upgrade them to Grails 3.
I use the latest edition of IntelliJ Ultimate 2016.2, and for the most part it works good with Grails 2. The debugger still throws a lot of EVAL errors, but I am able to evaluate my variables in real time.
The biggest problem I've encountered so far is plugins that are not compatible with Java 1.8. Some of the plugins still have to run in Java 1.7.
Lastly, I'd say if your project is still new, look into using NodeJs. It seems to be more popular than Grails at this point.
I think intellij is better for development in grails from my experience.
Grails 3 will be good choice for development. there are lot more features in there
https://dzone.com/articles/whats-new-grails-3
also document site will give you clear concept about it
http://docs.grails.org/latest/
Considering the fact that grails version 2 is different from grails version 3; it will be good if you start with version 3 and avoid the possibility of running into upgrade issues from 2.x to 3.x in the future
You can use Netbeans or Intelij. I use Netbeans.
Facing a lot of issues in Database migration in Grails 3.1.6. Not helping at all.
I think remaining a few days in version 2 will be beneficiary as long as version 3 stables.
Besides The GGTS support will be needed as Intellij IDEA 15 community edition does not support Grails. So better back to the old versions.
I'm trying with the 2.5.0 release of Grails but I have had problems of compatibility with some plugins I've tried (for example searchable)
Which version of Grails you recommend to start a new project? I'd like to start with the version more compatible with the list of current Grails plugins https://grails.org/plugins/
I'm not interested with the newer version but with the most compatible/stable with the current plugins list.
Both 2.4.x and 2.5.x will work fine with the current plugins in general.
Without any details it's hard to know why the searchable plugin isn't working for you, but note that it only works with Hibernate 3 and the default in new Grails apps is to use Hibernate 4. But you can see that the Hibernate 3 configuration settings are commented out in BuildConfig.groovy and DataSource.groovy so you can easily change back to Hibernate 3.
Having said that, don't use searchable. The underlying Compass library is no longer maintained, and using the searchable plugin will cause scaling problems because it's very inconvenient to get it to use a shared index between servers. The author of Compass created Elasticsearch, and that's a much better option. There's also an actively maintained plugin for it.
It seems like this questions should be easy but the installation requirements for Grails (http://www.grails.org/Installation) haven't been updated in 2 years. Does anyone know for sure is Grails 2.3 will run on JDK 8?
As noticed by heikkim this ticket which is now closed suggests that support for Java 8 will start on Grails 2.4:
http://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-11063 (title: Java 8 support)
Tried an app (built on v2.3.7) on JDK 8 and hit a road block with database-migration plugin while compiling the app. If that particular plugin is commented out then everything looks good during compilation.
Running the app (with a sample controller) throws an error related to withFormat method from grails-plugin-mimetypes. Looking into it.
Raised an improvement defect for grails-database-migration plugin. I think this may not be required as well but making grails JDK8 compatible might need changes in grails-core. However, I have not checked with latest milestone build for Grails 2.4 which might already be taking care of those compatibility issues.
Any one can tell me that how to Blackberry sdk installation with netbeans for Mobile application development
i am trying to plugin but not able to do .
I have used this tutorial in the past. You can ignore the part about J2ME Polish. Also, I think the Mobility Pack might come with new versions of Netbeans now (it didn't use to). Or, it's possible that in the Netbeans -> Tools -> Plugins menu, you might need to make sure the Java ME plugin is installed.
He references much older SDK versions, but as long as you download the newer JDE versions here (SDKs) from BlackBerry, the same basic instructions should work for you.
I've been using Netbeans less and less, and the BlackBerry Eclipse plugin more, in recent years, despite the fact that I like Netbeans better, as a general-purpose IDE. Unfortunately, you'll find that RIM is focused on Eclipse at this point.
But, you should still be able to use Netbeans if you like.