Managing plugins with Grails 1.3 | SpringSource Team Blog

Managing plugins with Grails 1.3 | SpringSource Team Blog

For a long time, managing Grails dependencies simply meant putting them in your application's lib directory. Then came Grails 1.2 and the dependency DSL: you could finally declare your dependencies and have Grails automatically download them and make them available to your app. Great!

Now, Grails 1.3 has brought the dependency DSL to the realm of plugins.

So what?

Users have often faced two issues with the plugin system up till now:

1. setting up a suitable Subversion server to act as a Grails plugin repository is not simple; and
2. you can't control what dependencies a plugin brings into your application.