Extending Grails - The Plugin System

About this Presentation

Grails is a super powerful framework for building applications for the Java platform. Grails addresses the pain points that the other web applications frameworks leave you with. This session covers the
details you need to further extend Grails to help Grails help you in your environment.

Since 2006 Grails has had a really powerful and flexible plugin system. Much of the functionality in Grails itself is implemented as plugins. Grails makes it easy for you to further extend the framework to address needs in your environment. This session will detail how some of the core plugins work. The session will also cover all of the information needed to customize existing behavior or introduce whole new capabilities to the framework through the plugin system and other techniques.