(Quick Reference)
core
Purpose
The core plug-in that adds methods and beans that other plug-ins rely upon
Description
This plug-in deals with setting up Grails to use Spring MVC at its core to deal with web requests. The plug-in sets up the
GrailsDispatcherServlet and necessary Spring beans (see below) for controllers, tag libraries and Groovy Server Pages (GSP)
Configured Spring Beans:
classLoader - A bean that refers to the GroovyClassLoader used to load this GrailsApplicationclassEditor - A PropertyEditor that allows conversion of String's to classes using the classLoader beancustomEditors - An instance of org.springframework.beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer, that uses allows the classEditor bean to be used as a PropertyEditor
