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306 CHAPTER 7: Rapid Web Development with Grails


Instead of creating the application from the command line, you can use the IDE of your choice.
We recommend the Groovy/GrailsTool Suite (GGTS), which you can download from
http://www.springsource.org/downloads/sts-ggts. This book uses the latest version, GGTS 3.0. GGTS
provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Groovy and Grails
applications. GGTS provides support for the latest versions of Groovy and Grails and comes on top
of the latest Eclipse releases. Figure 7-5 shows how to configure Grails in GGTS. Under Preferences,


Figure 7-4. Directory structure of the bookstore application

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