Sun tech evangelist Netbeans will be getting first-class Groovy support

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On Weds, July 18th, Gregg Sporar came to the Tampa Java Users Group and gave a presentation on NB 5.5.1 and some glances at NB 6.0 M10. During the talk, he mentioned several times of how the improvements were about bringing NB up to speed with the other IDEs. I couldn’t resist asking during the Q&A session when Groovy support in Netbeans will be brought up to speed with IntelliJ(ie code completion and Grails).

He mentioned Project Schliemann which can be used to add basic language support as a stopgap. He added that Tor Norbye(of Java Posse fame and referred to in the talk as the guy who added Ruby support) will be taking the lessons learned and adding Groovy first class Groovy support. There was no roadmap or time frame given other than after NB 6. Tor has been mum on the topic on the Java Posse. The most interesting point for me was that he said several people in the company questioned the motive behind adding Ruby support before Groovy support...So it seems we weren’t alone.

Comments

  1. Sakuraba said:

    AWESOME!
    Giving Netbeans support for Ruby before Groovy is like Visual Studio supporting Java but not C#...
    anyways, good to see positive progress.
  2. Stanley Styszynski said:

    Hi, greatings from Poland :)
    There is already a basic Groovy editor available for NetBeans based on the Project Schliemann written by Geertjan Wielenga:
    http://blogs.sun.com/geertj...
  3. Gregg Sporar said:

    Hi, thanks for writing up the blog entry. Just to clarify one thing: "He added that Tor Norbye(of Java Posse fame and referred to in the talk as the guy who added Ruby support) will be taking the lessons learned and adding Groovy first class Groovy support." The intent is to leverage the work that Tor has done - whether Tor ends up doing that work or not is unknown to me. For more insight, check out the interview Roman and I recently did with Tor: http://blogs.sun.com/roumen... Thanks, Gregg
  4. Vladimir Vivien said:

    Excellent write up James and thanks for the feedbacks Greg. I am excited about NetBeans 6.0. I played around with it and it is snappier and feels more native to the OS environment.
  5. James Williams said:

    What I meant in the post was not that Tor was secretly working, only that it had not been confirmed or denied if he is or will work on it.

    As Gregg's post above states, he never said it would be Tor.
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