Grails 2.4.4 and joda-time plugin not working - grails

I have been struggling with this for 2 days now and everything I've read so far does not seem to work. Is it possible to use the joda-time plugin with Grails 2.4.4? Has anyone done this? I created a brand new 2.4.4 application, made a domain class, and just added the joda-time plugin and I get the following error at run time
Error evaluating ORM mappings block for domain [Domain Name Here]: No such property: org for class: org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.cfg.HibernateMappingBuilder
I've tried versions of the plugin up to 1.6-SNAPSHOT but nothing seems to work.

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Is it possible to have different gorm versions in plugins within a grails 3 application?

I have a grails 3 application that makes heavy use of plugins. Some of these plugins provide domain classes. My application will not start unless every plugin has the same gorm version. This is an annoyance for locally developed plugins, but can be a significant problem for using third-party plugins.
There are more details in the stacktrace, but the relevant parts appear to be:
Caused by: org.grails.core.exceptions.GrailsRuntimeException: Failed to introspect class: class (my class name)
at grails.core.ArtefactHandlerAdapter.isArtefact(ArtefactHandlerAdapter.java:129)
at grails.core.DefaultGrailsApplication.addOverridableArtefact(DefaultGrailsApplication.java:772)
at org.grails.plugins.AbstractGrailsPluginManager.registerProvidedArtefacts(AbstractGrailsPluginManager.java:310)
I am currently using Grails 3.2.8 with GORM 6.1.3.RELEASE, but this happens with other non-matching versions for gorm as well.
If there is a better way to accomplish the bigger-picture goal, my big-picture goal is to use the grails ehcache plugin (currently at 3.0.0.M1) which requires gorm 6.1.x as a minimum. Per conversations on that plugin github site, there is no problem using gorm 6.1 with grails 3.2.x, though this is not the default.
Is there any way to run a grails 3 application, using plugins which provide domain objects, in which these plugins have different minor versions of gorm?
In case anyone else comes across this, the answer was basically "no".
The longer answer is "not as long as the groovy version is changing in non-backwards-compatible ways", and apparently that happens a lot.
There are some comments from Graeme here: https://github.com/grails/grails-core/issues/10693 but to summarize: you have to use the same version of gorm across plugins, and also make sure any third-party plugins you rely on are on the same version. This is only required for plugins that provide domain objects, at least!

Grails 3.1.0.M2 Database Reverse Engineering

Need of help.
I am new to Grails,
My question is How to do db-reverse-engineer.?
I did it in Grails 2.5.1 but I am struggling with Grails 3.1.0.M2 version.
Thanks in advance.
There's no plugin for Grails 3. I started to convert the older one but it's more work than I was expecting because it has to work with Hibernate 4, and the old plugin only works with Hibernate 3.
But the generated files wouldn't be any different in Grails 3 than in Grails 2 since GORM has stayed rather consistent. Since the plugin is only used at build time, and often only once or at most a few times, I recommend that you configure a Grails 2 app with the same database config settings and using the plugin there, then moving the generated files to your Grails 3 app.

Grails 3 and Spring Security Plugin

I've just recently started working with Grails, and I'd like to test out the Spring Security Plugin. I'm using Grails v3.0.0RC2, and I'm finding it difficult to come across accurate documentation for it with a lot of things.
I'm looking at the Grails page for the Spring Security Plugin, located at http://grails.org/plugin/spring-security-core, and it tells me to add the following to grails-app/conf/BuildConfig
plugins {
…
compile ':spring-security-core:2.0-RC4'
…
}
Now, Grails 3 has done away with the BuildConfig, and moved over to using Gradle. So I figured I could just that compile line to my "dependencies" section in build.gradle and it would work, like so:
dependencies{
...
compile:":spring-security-core:2.0-RC4"
}
However, that did not work. I get the error "Could not find :spring-security-core:2.0-RC4...".
Then I figured, 'Hey, it's a plugin, let me try prefacing it with "org.grails.plugins" like I see elsewhere in the build.gradle file:
dependencies{
...
compile:"org.grails.plugins:spring-security-core:2.0-RC4"
}
And still no go.
I have gotten it to compile by adding the dependency found on search.maven.org, like so:
dependencies{
...
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:4.0.0.RELEASE'
}
But I don't think thats the proper way to do, because Grails documentation says I should have access to the command
grails s2-quickstart
once the plugin is installed, which I do not when I do it using the Maven repo.
I'm sure there's a simple configuration error I'm making, as I'm very new to both Grails, Spring, and Gradle, so I appreciate any help that can be provided.
The Spring Secuirty core plugin for Grails is not Grails 3 compatible. However, since Grails 3 is based on Spring Boot you can use the Spring Security Starter for Spring Boot instead.
This has been discussed on the Grails developers mailing list and going forward many Grails plugins will not be moved to Grails 3 and instead will be replaced by pure Spring solutions.
Update
Since this question was originally asked there has been a Spring Security plugin created for Grails 3.x. It can be found here: https://bintray.com/grails/plugins/spring-security-core/view
The "Spring Security Starter for Spring Boot" is a good starting point, but if you want to save yourself some time trying to figure out how to get it to work with Grails, check out this helpful blog post.
I wrote the blog post #Jamie referenced in his answer and I added a new blog post describing how to use the Gorm domain classes from Spring-Security-Core plugin from Grails 2.
dependencies {
...
compile 'org.grails.plugins:spring-security-core:3.0.4'
...
}
This is what I used and it worked for me

Grails: Unable to generate views

This is a very basic thing and I have no idea why am not able to do this. I am using Grails 2.3.5
I have a domain class com.trail.AuditTrail and I want it scaffolded views. So, here are the steps I followed:
ran grails create-controller com.trail.AuditTrail, this returned a message saying it generated:
grails-app/controller/trail/AuditTrailController
grails-app/views/auditTrail (just the folder!)
It also created AuditTrailControllerSpec.groovy.
Then I added the line static scaffold = true in the Controller.
Then ran generate-views to create the views, but nothing got created !
IMPORTANT: In fact grails says that there is no command called as generate-views. When I did grails help it didn't list generate-views. So, I thought may be 2.3.5 doesn't have the command and tried generate-all. This too failed. To my surprise, grails help didn't show up generate-all too !
Then I found this bug: https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-10530. So, I tried clean, refresh-dependencies, compile and then generate-all. But still the same problem.
I thought my local grails setup is messed up. So, asked my colleague. He too sees the same problems.
My problem is I am not able to create the default template GSPs out of the domain.
Scaffolding functionality was extracted from Grails core in 2.3, so you need to install scaffolding plugin for Grails 2.3.5 to be able to use generate-all, generate-views GANT scripts.
P.S. I suggest you to switch to Grails 2.3.6 or 2.3.7. For more details take a look at this article http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-0053
for that right click on action then click on generate view

Grails + Gpars.memoize().. how to do memoization?

I can't seem to figure out how to do memoization in Grails. According to the GPars docs it should be as simple as
def c = { x -> x*2 }.memoize() or ... .gmemoize()
But all i seem to get is compilation errors and stacktraces thrown. Has anyone successfully used gpars with grails?
Grails up until 1.4.0m1 bundled an old version of gpars (0.9) that didn't include memoization. Since Grails preferes the bundled libs to the user-specified ones, you never get a chance to see the memoization methods.
To my best knowledge the Grails master branch has already fixed that and gives users the freedom to choose a GPars version they like.
We are currently successfully using GPars data flow concurrency in a Grails 1.3.7 application. GPars is defined as a basic jar dependency in BuildConfig.groovy, we are not using the GPars Grails plugin.

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