Features

Editing

• Syntax highlighting
• Error highlighting
  • Unresolved classes marked as errors
  • Unresolved unqualified properties marked as warnings
  • Incompatible types assignments marked as warnings
  • Inapplicable method calls marked as warnings
• Code folding
• Code formatter
• Comments and "To Do" view support
• "add missing import" intention

Execution, Debugging & Compilation

• Debugging support (setting breakpoints, view stack)

• GDK configuration
• Grails configuration
• Run configuration for Groovy scripts
• Make or rebuild java+groovy project entire (Compilation .groovy files to java bytecode)

Code Completion 

• context sensitive keyword completion
• Completion of methods, fields, classes
  • Completion makes use of type inference
  • Default methods completed
  • Swing builder methods are completed, swing properties are completed in method argument list
• Resolve
• Resolve groovy to groovy classes, methods, fields
• Resolve groovy to java classes, methods, fields
• Resolve java to groovy classes, methods, fields

Surround with (Alt+Ctrl+T)

• if () {} / else {}
•  while () {}
• try / catch / finally
• closure {}
• (Type) expr

Introduce variable (Alt+Ctrl+V)

• Introduce variable
• Offer the default type and variable name

Structure view

• Shows all classes, methods, fields founded in groovy file

File structure (Ctrl+F12)

• The popup window contains classes, methods, fields.

Find usage (Alt+F7)

• Implements groovy classes search

Class search (Ctrl+N)

•  Searches class by prefix of class groovy name

Grails

• Grails SDK configuration
• Grails controller, view, domain class, job, script,  service, taglib creation
• Grails generators are built in; output to console

Coming soon

• Find Usages for methods and fields

• Safe Delete refactoring
• Rename Refactoring
• Live Templates support
• Debugging support (evaluate expressions)
• GSP support