Plugins

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

Rich Client/Ajax Plugins

• DWR Plugin
• Dynamic Javascript Plugin
• Echo2 Plugin
• GWT Plugin
• OpenLaszlo Plugin
• RichUI Plugin
• ZK Plugin
• Flex Plugin
• ULC Plugin
• ModalBox Plugin
• Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) Plugin
• Ext JavaScript Library Plugin

Chart Plugins

• Google Chart Plugin
• JFreeChart Eastwood Plugin
• Open Flash Chart Plugin

Web Services Plugins

• XFire plugin
• Remoting Plugin
• XML-RPC Plugin
• Apache Axis2 Plugin

Performance / Utility Plugins

• Static Resources Plugin
• 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.

Scheduling Plugins

• Quartz plugin

Security Plugins

• AcegiSecurity Plugin
• JSecurity Plugin
• Authentication Plugin
• Simple Captcha Plugin
• JCaptcha Plugin
• CAS Client Plugin
• ClamAV Plugin
• Atlassian Crowd Plugin
• OpenID Plugin
• ReCaptcha Plugin
• License Management Plugin

Web Design Plugins

• sIFR Plugin
• Skinnable Plugin

Search

• Searchable Plugin - rich search functionality with minimum effort. Built on Compass and Lucene

Scaffolding / Templating / Binding plugins

• DjangoTemplates Plugin
• GroovyBinder Plugin
• ScaffoldTags Plugin
• I18n Templates Plugin
• Extended Data Binding Plugin

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

Other Frameworks

• Wicket Plugin
• Struts 1 Plugin

Database Change Tracking

• LiquiBase Plugin
• dbmigrate Plugin

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.