Thanks for the honorable mention Peter.

When I wrote that post I was thinking along the lines of a larger scale project where different development teams might be maintaining the different parts, and multiple applications would be using the plugins. Plus, I'm still a bit of a newbie and didn't know about this particular feature of Grails!

Looks like I'll have to modify my approach a bit, since this is without question a more dynamic approach.

Don't forget to mention some drawback using the inline plugins. Plugins dependencies are completly broken and so it is for IDE support ! And also, not all feature of Grails works in plugin such as Subflow (GRAILS-5976).

@Nick "completely broken" is a bit extreme. When using transitive plugin dependencies with inline plugins you just need to make sure those transitive dependencies are either already installed or configure them as inplace plugins. A minor nuisance more than anything else.

With regards to GRAILS-5976 if you could attach an example to the issue that would help in getting the issue fixed promptly. For those who don't use or need Webflow in their apps it would be good if you could raise issues for other features you see as "not working" when using plugins.

I write a plugin,it's name is "myplugin" and contain a domain class which named "Test". I used 'grails.plugin.location.myplugin = "../myplugin" in another grails application. In one controller, there code is "import xxx.Test ….def test = new Test();….",it show me that "Groovy:unable to resolve calss xxx.Test".

But I used the command "grails run-app", it worked, the page is right.
who can tell me how to resolve the "Groovy:unable to resolve calss xxx.Test"?
by the way, I used sts 2.3.2.

hi,Peter Ledbrook. Thank you very much. We need to config the snapshot of the STS Grails support, in addition, need to update the Groovy-Eclipse to the latest snapshot from this update site:http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.5/. Then,it will work.

Thank you,
OSGI is definitly a real need for grails I would say because, I found this recently wil deploying several grails app into a Tomcat server.
I got several memory problems to do with permgen space, but mostly I found a show stopper to have 32 MB's per app.
And I'm not using several grails plugins just: jquery, quartz,searchable.
But the at the moment there is no friendly windows installer for OSGI server like the one for Tomcat.

about ibatis plugin for grails 1.3.2(or 1.3.1)
who use the ibatis plugin?
I have some questions.
1.download the ibatis plugin from "http://www.grails.org"
2.run the command "grails install-plugin /home/….grails-ibatis-1.1.0.zip"
it creates a folder named gateways in the grails-app directory.
3.create some POJO,such as com.example.Book
4.run the command "grails create-gateway com.example.Book"
if it is right, there will be "grails-app/gateways/com/example/BookGateway.groovy"
"grails-app/gateways/com/example/book.xml"
but actually,it can not create the groovy and xml file.
5.so I look at the source code in the plugin, and I find a file named CreateGateway.grooy, I changed some code.
6.grails package-plugin
7.grails install-plugin /home/….grails-ibatis-0.1.zip
8.grails create-gateway com.example.Book
good, I can see the BookGateway.grooy and book.xml file.
9.next,how to use the the BookGateway?
my code as flow:
package ff
import com.example.Book;
import com.example.BookGateway

class BookController {
def index = {
BookGateway b = new BookGateway();
def book = b.getBookByBname('grails');
render "$book.bname"
}
}

Am I right to use the BookGateway as above?
It show me "can not find the class BookGateway",but when I run the "grails run-app" command, it works.
and can I add the "grails-app/gateways" directory to source folder?

help!!!

Hi,
Peter Ledbrook. I have a question about the grails plugin-oriented architecture.
The detail is that now I use a grails-mybatis-plugin, there some codes(such as println "doWithDynamicMethods……………………….") in the doWithDynamicMethods with the plugin.

then I create a grails-plugin project "domainplugin",install the mybatis plugin.
run-app. I can see "doWithDynamicMethods….." on the grails Console.

last I create a grails project "bookapp", add the "grails.plugin.location.domainplugin=../domainplugin" in the BuildConfig.groovy.
run-app. And this time I can not see the "doWithDynamicMethods….." from the Console.

In aother word，such as we have plugin A(there is some codes in the doWithDynamicMethods method), plugin B(in B, install-plugin A),and a grails app named testApp(install-plugin B),when we run the testApp, the doWithDynamicMethods method does not work? Can you give me some advice,thank you very much.

I have a question about the "watchedResources" config of plugin

def watchedResources = "file:./src/ddd/*.groovy"
it works.

Can I config the absolute dir with the watchedResources?
such as : def watchedResources = "file:E:/xxx/src/*.groovy"?
I have tried. But it did not work. Who can give me some advice?
thanks.

I have tried, not work.

Excellent article! It really helped me understand the power of using in-place plugins within my Grails apps. I plan on using this a lot.