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Is Netbeans 14 still not supporting Grails project?

Netbeans 8 works quite well with Grails. I can click New Project to create a new Grails project. Netbeans 8 can show the project with Domain, Controller, Views folders on the left nicely. I can even debug the project with breakpoint. Netbeans 8 only works well with Grails 2. But at lease it can show the project folder structures nicely with newer versions of Grails like 4 and 5.

Netbeans 14 is missing all of these with/without the default Groovy plugin. It can't even open a simple Helloworld Grails project I create using the grails create-app helloworld command.

I googled Netbeans and Grails but the posts were quite outdated from many years ago. They said to use the Netbeans 8 Groovy plugin.

Is there any updated way to setup Netbeans 14 to work with Grails?

I attached 2 pictures. One is how it looks with 14. The other is how it looks with 8.

Netbeans 8

Netbeans 14

Solution

  • Unfortunately, I think the answer to your question is that Netbeans 14 does not support Grails. It's tough to prove a negative, but there is very strong circumstantial evidence of that being the case:

    Notes:

    • For some releases since NetBeans 8.2 it has been possible to add Grails support using the old 8.2 plugin (e.g. this answer), but the approaches were brittle, and did not offer any functionality beyond that available in NetBeans 8.2. I suppose you could try a similar workaround to get Grails running on NetBeans 14, as described in SO answers for other NetBeans releases, but stability might be an issue.
    • For what it's worth, Intellij IDEA provides a Grails plugin, though I haven't tried it.
    • Finally, Grails not working in NetBeans 14 should not be viewed as a NetBeans issue. Instead, it's a third-party plugin issue, and as far as I know there has been no development on the 8.2 plugin you are currently using for years. (That said, it would be helpful if the NetBeans documentation for each release formally stated any new functionality, and any functionality that was no longer supported, or no longer worked.)