Since the Groovy IDE plugin is still in the development phase, there is no binary version, you have to get it from Groovy's CVS, you compile and export yourself.
l File> New> Project> Checkout Projects from CVS
l Enter the repository location information:
Ø Host: cvs.groovy.codehaus.org
Ø repository path: / home / projects / groovy / scm
Ø User: anonymous
Ø Password: (empty)
Ø Connection Type: PServer
l Select Module: Select Use An Exsiting Module, select / Groovy / IDE / Groovy-Eclipse / Groovy / Groovy / IDE / Groovse-Eclipse / Groovyeclipse in the list below
l Click the Finish button to join the two projects
l Compile these two projects to export plugins:
Ø File> Export> Delpoyable Plug-Ins and Fragments
Ø Select Groovy and Grovyeclipse these two plugins in the list
Ø Deploy as: a Directory Structure
Ø Directory specifies the output target directory
Ø Click the Finish button
l Copy the contents of the Plugins directory in the output target directory to the plugins directory of Eclipse
l Delete the Platform.xml under the Eclipse's Configuration / Org.eclipse.Update directory
l Close Eclipse, restart Eclipse
l Window> Customize PreSpective> Shortcuts> New
l Select the Groovy project
l This will create a Groovy file by File> New.
