Monthly Archives: February 2010

Teaching Mavenized Grails to Survive mvn release:prepare release:perform with Hudson

A mavenized Grails project has 2 competing sources stating the version of the application <version> within pom.xml app.version within application.properties If 2. does not match 1. the grails-maven-plugin will abort the build, urging you to manually fix the version mismatch. … Continue reading

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Maven – Never Say Never in an updatePolicy

I want to share a misconception that caused Maven to fail when looking for artifacts. Im my example I was upgrading from Grails 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 and including a dependency to grails.org:grails-core:[1.2.1,1.2.1]. Maven would just complain with Couldn’t find a … Continue reading

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Grails – How to Use Native Server Logging Configuration (e.g. Tomcat GlassFish JBoss)

Grails comes complete with logging out-of-the-box. However, if a Grails application is being deployed to a production servlet container, it may be advisable or even required for Grails to step aside and let the server admins do their jobs 🙂 … Continue reading

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Grails – UTF-8 Form Input Garbled when Running Within Tomcat

There are numerous articles describing charset problems when using Tomcat to run Grails applications that are supposed to accept UTF-8 characters (e.g. German umlauts äöüÄÖÜß). Most of them don’t mention a subtle cause that may jeopardize all your efforts to … Continue reading

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