Grails Plugins
This page contains links to the documentation for each plugin that is available for Grails.
Testing
- Functional Testing with Canoo WebTest
- Test Code Coverage Plugin
- Selenium plugin (run functional tests in the browser)
- jsUnit plugin (test javascript)
- DBUnit Plugin
Performance / Utility Plugins
- Static Resources Plugin (serve resources from outside your web-app easily)
- p6spy plugin (database statement logging)
- Cacheable Plugin (application level caching)
- Amazon S3 Plugin
- WebXML Plugin Allows adding configurable features to the web.xml file without having to write a plugin.
- Jawr plugin Javascript/CSS bundling and compression tool for grails web apps. All the features from the Jawr library ported to Grails.
Search
- Searchable Plugin - rich search functionality with minimum effort. Built on Compass and Lucene
Persistence Plugins
- Explicit Insert Plugin adds an insert method to all domain classes to resolve save() issues with legacy tables with assigned keys and no version or timestamp.
- Acts As Taggable Plugin add the acts_as_taggable ability to domain class
- Systemi Grails Domain Plugin generates Grails domain classes from a legacy IBM System i (a.k.a. AS/400, a.k.a. iSeries) table
- Grails Audit Logging Plugin track who changed what via Hibernate events, can be optionally configured to log users from multiple security plugins, adds onChange event handler to marked domain classes and exposes old and new values.
Functionality plugins
- Radeox plugin for the Radeox wiki engine
- Mondrian plugin to add Mondrian and JPivot OLAP
- FCK editor plugin - WYSIWYG text editor with buillt in image and flash upload capabilities.
- JMS Plugin to add Message Driven Bean functionality
- Feeds Plugin to generate RSS/Atom feeds easily
- ImageTools plugin provides some JAI helper classes for image handling
- Currencies plugin provide Money and Exchange Rate handling classes.
- Encryption plugin, for Blowfish and PGP encryption, as well as handling salted passwords.
- PostCode Plugin provides UK postcode lookup to lat/lon and distance between postcode functionality
- Ref Code Plugin provides funtionality for storing and accessing simple reference data
LDAP
- LDAP Plugin - Add LDAP connectivity through Gldapo
Report
- Jasper Plugin - Add Jasper reports in your web application easily.
For creating your own plugins see the The Plug-in Developers Guide.

