Grails 3.0.1 add in Eclipse show error Specified directory does not appear to be a Grails installation

Question

When I try to install/import Grails 3.0.1 in Eclipse I get error message "Specified directory does not appear to be a Grails installation".

I already have installed Groovy Compiler 2.4.3. but still get same error message.

How I can install Grails 3.0.1 in Eclipse 4.4?

Answer 1

At grails folder you can put a file "build.properties",

/grails-3.0.1/build.properties
             /install
             /license
             /.......

the content of this file is a single line "grails.version=3.0.1", without quotes. :-)

Now eclipse will recognize it as Grails installation.

Regards

Answer 2

Grails 3 is very different from earlier versions of Grails, in particular being based on Spring Boot. It will be a while before the IDEs have support for Grails 3. Eclipse will probably not have support for Grails 3 as 3.6.4 has been announced as the last release of GGTS and the Grails and Groovy tooling now that Pivotal has abandoned Grails and Groovy.