Has anybody tried doing GSP design with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4? It has support for JSPs, but it doesn't recognize the gsp extension, and even if it did I think there would be problems regarding the gsp tags that it would not recognize. I found a little cookbook here (http://www.bitwalker.nl/blog/using-groovyserver-pages-in-dreamweaver) for getting GSPs partially working with Dreamweaver CS3, but many of the files and directories it references no longer appear to exist in CS4.
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I am not going to directly answer your question, but really, an IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse would be much better suited for Groovy/Grails development. Dreamweaver was never intended to be a developers editor but to be more of a designers editor. Hence it lacks many features that more developer-centric IDEs have.
I am assuming that you are using Dreamweaver for its design-centric behavior. Both NetBeans and Eclipse have preview modes where you can see your changes in a near instant fashion, just like what I am guessing you like about Dreamweaver.
Long story short, use a more appropriate IDE.
Cody Caughlan
2009-01-03 02:04:59
The person said DESIGN in his first sentence. Assume that he uses an IDE for development and he really wants to use Dreamweaver appropriately, do you have a more useful answer?
2009-01-03 16:30:21
You're right, I did shy away from suggesting a clear cut answer based on Dreamweaver. In my head I was thinking something along the lines of: "use Dreamweaver for its design capabilities, but when you need to atually code, switch over to NetBeans/Eclipse/etc"
Cody Caughlan
2009-01-04 19:09:44
Yes that is actually what we are doing right now... coding in IntelliJ, doing html/css design with dreamweaver, then applying the html and css to our views manually. Mostly I just want dreamweaver not to puke on a gsp tag so we can do the design directly to the gsp views without the extra step.
Chris King
2009-01-06 02:27:36
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Are you using Grails Layouts, Partial Templates, ajax library(s)?
tranced_UT3
2009-05-04 17:44:37
All of the above, and much more. We are using JQuery as our library. However, even partial Dreamweaver support would help.
Chris King
2009-05-04 20:52:10