are there other possible ways to use groovy in Eclipse except plugin

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I am using eclipse Mars 4.5.0 IDE and I would like to do some Groovy project.Adding groovy as a plugin is not working, because I am not able to connect to http://dist.springsource.org/snapshot/GRECLIPSE/e4.5/p2.index. In fact even simple update are not working. There is always some connection time out like connection to http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/update/4.5/content.xml.

However I do have groovy installed on my system. Is there anyway I could tell the IDE to use the system groovy? Or is it possible to download the plugin and manually add it to the IDE? I am using windows 7

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The groovy compiler delivered by the plugin is patched and therefore I don't think it is possible to use an external groovy compiler.

If you're behind a proxy, try to configure eclipse with manual proxy settings.

At least the 4.6 and 4.7 snapshot update site works well for me ATM, but when i had access problems, I downloaded the last working build from the ci server mentioned in the wiki:

e.g. E45 build and publish -> #393 -> Artifacts -> Zipped Update Site

and used it as an update site (add.. -> archive).