Adding a “lite” Groovy web console to a Grails war

Suppose you have a Grails application deployed to a server – how would you go about finding out how the…

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Building GORM Criteria Queries Dynamically

I originally wrote most of the queries in the spring-security-ui plugin using HQL because I find it more intuitive than…

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Automatically converting password hashes in Grails spring-security-core

I was looking at this Stack Overflow question about converting password hashes and realized that it’s possible and rather convenient…

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Converting Grails Applications to Plugins and vice versa

I was in London last week on vacation with my family and was lucky that there was a London GGUG…

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A Grails plugin to bridge Spring Security and Shiro

I started using Spring Security in 2007 when I was tasked with adding security to a Spring/Hibernate application at the…

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Grails SQL Logging part 2 – groovy.sql.Sql

I discussed options for logging Hibernate-generated SQL in an earlier post but today I was trying to figure out how to…

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Grails: Autodiscovery of JPA-annotated domain classes

There are some issues to be fixed with the support for adding JPA annotations (for example @Entity) to Groovy classes…

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Logging Hibernate SQL

There are two well-known ways to log Hibernate SQL in Grails; one is to add logSql = true in DataSource.groovy…

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Stuff I Learned from Grails Consulting

I don’t do much Grails consulting since I work for the Engineering group, and we have an excellent group of…

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