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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 company I was working for. There were a few options to choose ...

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 see the SQL from groovy.sql.Sql and didn’t have much luck ...

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 in grails-app/domain in 2.0. This is due to the changes made to ...

Logging Hibernate SQL
There are two well-known ways to log Hibernate SQL in Grails; one is to add logSql = true in DataSource.groovy (either in the top-level block for all environments or per-environment) dataSource ...

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 support engineers that usually work directly with clients. I do occasionally ...

Using Servlet 3.0 Async Features in Grails 2.0
I was talking to someone last week about the new support for Servlet 3.0 async features in Grails 2 and realized I didn’t know that much about what was available. So I thought I’d ...

Using Servlet 3.0 Async Features in Grails 2.0
I was talking to someone last week about the new support for Servlet 3.0 async features in Grails 2 and realized I didn’t know that much about what was available. So I thought I’d ...

Make your Spring Security @Secured annotations more DRY
Recently a user on the Grails User mailing list wanted to know how to reduce repetition when defining @Secured annotations. The rules for specifying attributes in Java annotations are ...



