The Plug-in Developers Guide

This page forms a guide to developers wishing to develop plugins for Grails. Since 0.4, Grails provides a number of extension points that allow you to extend anything from the command line interface to the runtime configuration engine. The following sections detail how to go about it:

• Creating, Distributing and Installing Plugins
• Understanding a Plugin's structure
• Adding Basic Artifacts (Controllers, Scripts etc.)
• Hooking into build script events
• Hooking into Runtime Configuration
• Adding Dynamic Methods at runtime
• Participating in Auto Reload Events
• Understanding Plugin Dependencies and Load order
• Adding new Artifact types
• User contributed Plugins

See also the list of available Plugins for non-trivial examples.