CHAPTER 13Plugins
Up until now, you have been a consumer of the Grails plugin system at various points throughout the book. In Chapter 8, you used the Searchable plugin to add full-text search to your Grails application and explored how to use the Yahoo UI plugin as an alternative Ajax provider. And in the previous chapter, you had the chance to use both the Mail and Quartz plugins. Now it's time to turn the tables and become a plugin author. Plugins are, quite simply, the cornerstone of Grails. Grails itself is basically a plugin runtime with little knowledge beyond how to load and configure an installed set of plugins.
The Grails plugin system is very flexible—so much so that it would be quite reasonable to write an entire book on the subject. ...
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