Groovy-Eclipse is the set of Eclipse plugins that provide Eclipse support for Groovy projects.
Groovy is a dynamic language which is based on the Java Virtual machine. Groovy supports standard Java constructs including annotations, generics, static imports, enums, varargs and in addition advanced language features as
Groovy is a dynamic language that runs on the JVM and is tightly integrated with the Java language. Groovy provides lots of simplifications compared to standard Java language features and advanced language features as properties, closures, native support for lists, maps and regular expressions, duck typing and the elvis operator.
Groovy is almost compatible to Java, e.g. almost every Java construct is valid Groovy code which makes the usage of Groovy for an experience Java programmer easy.