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The next Maia EAP brings you basic Griffon support, similar to Grails integration. You’ll be able to add Griffon library to Groovy facet:

IntelliJ IDEA will then create a Griffon application or plugin directory structure and take all the steps necessary to keep it up-to-date, as you install plugins and add libraries. As with Grails, a dedicated Griffon project view will appear together with a run/debug configuration:

Also, Run Griffon target with target autocompletion action can be found under Tools menu.

As you all know, JDK 7 includes new java syntax for Annotations on Types (JSR-308)

To enable JSR-308 support in Maia, set the Java language level level to 7:

Then you can declare and use your weird type annotations almost everywhere:

To enable type annotations compilation in IntelliJ IDEA, download the latest Open JDK build, patch it as described in Type Annotations Prototype Implementation FAQ, and attach it to an IntelliJ IDEA project via Project SDK on Project tab in the Project Structure dialog (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S).