Running Grails application and managing its dependencies with maven is quite easy. You just need to issue the following command for generating the pom.xml. And then you can manage your Grails application’s dependencies with maven:
grails create-pom my.company
This will generate the pom file with all the dependencies and maven grails plugin. In order to run the application with maven you will have to issue the following command:
mvn grails:run-app
to explore more goals offered by the Grails maven plugin use the following command to list them:
mvn grails:help
This will list all the goals offered by the plugin. Here’s the list provided by Grails 2.1.3:
This plugin has 37 goals: grails:clean Cleans a Grails project. grails:config-directories Set sources/tests directories to be compatible with the directories layout used by grails. grails:console Runs a Grails console inside the current project. grails:create-controller Creates a new controller. grails:create-domain-class Creates a new domain class. grails:create-integration-test Creates a new Grails integration test which loads the whole Grails environment when run. grails:create-pom Creates a creates a maven 2 POM for an existing Grails project. grails:create-script Creates a Grails Gant Script. grails:create-service Creates a new service class. grails:create-tag-lib Creates a new GSP tag library. grails:create-unit-test Creates a new Grails unit test. A unit test requires that you mock out access to dynamic methods, but executes a lot quicker. grails:exec Executes an arbitrary Grails command. grails:generate-all Generates a CRUD interface (controller + views) for a domain class. grails:generate-controller Generates a CRUD controller for a specified domain class. grails:generate-views Generates the CRUD views for a specified domain class. grails:help Display help information on grails-maven-plugin. Call mvn grails:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details. grails:init Validate consistency between Grails and Maven settings. grails:init-plugin Validate consistency between Grails and Maven settings. grails:install-templates Installs the artifact and scaffolding templates. grails:list-plugins Lists the available plugins. grails:maven-clean Cleans a Grails project and jars in lib directory. grails:maven-compile Compiles a Grails project. grails:maven-functional-test Runs a Grails application's functional tests. grails:maven-grails-app-war Creates a WAR archive and register it in maven. This differs from the MvnWarMojo in that it makes the WAR file the build artifact for the 'grails-app' packaging. The standard 'maven-war' goal is designed for the normal 'war' packaging. grails:maven-test Runs a Grails applications unit tests and integration tests. grails:maven-war Creates a WAR archive for the project and puts it in the usual Maven place. grails:package Packages the Grails application into the web-app folder for running. grails:package-plugin Packages the Grails plugin. grails:run-app Runs a Grails application in Jetty. grails:run-app-https Runs a Grails application in Jetty with HTTPS listener. grails:run-war Runs a Grails application in Jetty from its WAR. grails:set-version Set the grails application version from the Maven POM version. grails:test-app Runs a Grails applications unit tests and integration tests. grails:upgrade Upgrades a Grails application to the version of this plugin. grails:validate Validate consistency between Grails and Maven settings. grails:validate-plugin Validate consistency between Grails and Maven settings. grails:war Creates a WAR archive.
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