The Definitive Guide to Grails, Second Edition

CHAPTER 12Integrating Grails

So far, you've explored a number of the core concepts that underpin Grails. From controllers to GORM and services, you should now have a pretty good understanding of what makes Grails tick. In this chapter, you'll learn how you can fit Grails into your existing ecosystem. We hope what you'll get from this chapter is a good understanding of how to go about including Grails into your build system, development tools, reporting setup, and server environment.

There is a lot of ground to cover, so let's get started by taking a closer look at configuration in Grails.

Grails and Configuration

Using Convention over Configuration (CoC), Grails significantly reduces the amount of configuration you need to do. Crucially, however, ...