Hey, In case anyone is interested in Groovy-Eclipse development, it's now quite easy to setup a development environment and start hacking: Just download the latest Eclipse-Installer and select Groovy-Eclipse on the Projects page of the Installer's Advanced mode. More detailed instructions are here:
https://github.com/groovy/groovy-eclipse/blob/master/docs/Getting-Started-with-Groovy-Eclipse-Source-Code.md#development-environment-setup