Now you can develop your Griffon application within NetBeans 6.8. The Griffon plugin is maintained from Geertjan and works now with version 6.8.

Before it was necessary to

1. Create a griffon app via command line:
   griffon create-app
2. Import via eclipse project importer.
3. Set up the command line arguments in NetBeans (except the classpath jars):
   exec java -server -Xmx512M -classpath /path/griffon-0.2/lib/groovy-all-1.6.4.jar:/path/griffon-0.2/dist/griffon-cli-0.2.jar -Dprogram.name=griffon -Dgroovy.starter.conf=/path/griffon-0.2/conf/groovy-starter.conf -Dgriffon.home=/path/griffon-0.2 -Dbase.dir=. -Dtools.jar=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun//lib/tools.jar org.codehaus.griffon.cli.support.GriffonStarter –main org.codehaus.griffon.cli.GriffonScriptRunner –conf /path/griffon-0.2/conf/groovy-starter.conf –classpath .
4. and disable ‘Compile On Save’

So its great to have it easier now in NetBeans!