This document summarizes the Groovy support and features available in IntelliJ IDEA. It highlights the common editor experience shared with other languages as well as Groovy-specific differences like syntax enhancements and dynamic typing. Additional Groovy tools are discussed, including Grails-aware code assistance, navigation, and refactoring support as well as integrated Grails commands. The future includes more advanced AST transformations and custom DSL APIs.

1. Groovy IntelliJ IDEA V á clav Pech

2. Commonalities Overall editor user experience Shortcuts, Navigation, Code completion Live templates, Surround with, Refactoring Analysis + Quick fixes Debugging … Seamless language mixing

3. Differences Groovy syntax enhancements Dynamic typing Language dynamism Builder support – Swing, GAnt

4. Grails Grails-aware code assistance Navigation, refactorings UML class diagrams Integrated Grails commands and Plugin management Run configurations Debugger

5. Future AST transformations support Public Custom DSL API More refactorings, intentions, inspections, etc. Gradle Griffon G…

6. Summary IntelliJ IDEA is very Groovy!

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