Nicholas Hagen

In the previous two blog articles (simple projects) (plugins), we touched on setting up standard Grails applications and plugins through Maven. In this article, we are going to talk about multi-module projects and how to build plugins and applications together as a single Maven build.

My last blog article explained using the Maven integration in the recently released 2.1 version of Grails on simple applications. Today, we are going to look at using the Maven integration and build, manage, and deploy plugins. Plugins and applications in Grails are very similar to each other. The big difference is that a plugin [...]

One of the larger features of the recently released update of Grails 2.1 is improved Maven integration support. Essentially what this means is that you can now use Maven for the complete build lifecycle. Maven was previously supported, but it only worked for traditional Maven/Java dependencies and not Grails plugins. As a result, you had [...]