Migrating to Grails 2.4.3
A lot has changed since I last used Grails (v1.3.2). I had developed a project that I want to use with latest Grails version. The migration isn't easy. So here's a list of steps to perform the migration (cf. http://grails.org/doc/2.4.x/guide/upgradingFrom23.html): Change Grails version required by application in application.properties. app.grails.version=2.4.3 Dependencies are no longer managed in application.properties; instead BuildConfig.groovy is used. Make sure Maven repositories are NOT commented. repositories { grailsPlugins() grailsHome() grailsCentral() // uncomment the below to enable remote dependency resolution // from public Maven repositories mavenLocal() mavenCentral() } Dependencies naming follows Maven style - groupId:artifactId:version. groupId of "org.grails.plugins" seems to work in most of the cases. dependencies { // specif