Intellij Idea 9 – Importing a Maven Groovy project

To import a Maven Groovy project into Intellij Idea 9:

• File > New Project
• Select ‘Import project from external model’.  Click [Next]
• Select ‘Maven’. Click  [Next]
• In the root directory window, navigate to the top-level directory of the Maven-Groovy project. Click [Next]
• Accept default offered for ‘Select Maven projects to import’. Click [Next]
• Accept default offered for project name. Click [Finish]
• All done!

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Maven – Setting up a Groovy project

To set up a basic Groovy project using Maven (all on the same line):

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.groovy.maven.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=gmaven-archetype-basic \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-rc-3

Then fill in the information as for any Maven project.

An Example:

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.groovy.maven.archetypes \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=gmaven-archetype-basic \
  -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-rc-3

Define value for groupId: : net.olioinfo
Define value for artifactId: : configatron-groovy
Define value for version:  1.0-SNAPSHOT: : 0.1
Define value for package:  net.olioinfo: : net.olioinfo.configatron
Confirm properties configuration:
name: Example Project
groupId: net.olioinfo
artifactId: configatron-groovy
version: 0.1
package: net.olioinfo.configatron
 Y: : Y

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