I'm new here, so forgive me if I've posted in the wrong forum.
I am a
Java greenhorn: about three years of core Java development with a smidge of Swing. I may have an opportunity to work with Groovy on Grails and want to get a head start by working with it at home, beginning with the basic tutorials.
I now have Eclipse EE on my home PC. It was easy enough to find instructions for downloading and installing SpringSource Tool Suite and Grails, however I'm unsure of what else is needed. Should I install a DB such as MySQL? Do I also need a webserver, and if so, which one? I installed
Tomcat 7 on a work PC and got it to work well enough with Eclipse (so I could tinker with
JSP), but an acquaintance suggested Glassfish instead.
Also, is there a preferred order of installation? For example DB first, then webserver, then STS, then Grails? The same acquaintance mentioned that he'd encountered some serious problems with his own PC when switching between DBs and webservers. So, I'd like to avoid potential pitfalls (or am I worrying too much?)
Thanks in advance for any hints and suggestions.
(Edit to remove unnecessary info)