Accessing Grails services from src/groovy

Question

Grails services are abstractions used for implementing business logic (as well as connecting to backing services/DBs, etc.) outside of a controller. So in a typical controller y

Answer 1

One way of achieving this is by using ServletContext-

ApplicationContext ctx = (ApplicationContext)ServletContextHolder.

getServletContext().getAttribute(GrailsApplicationAttributes.APPLICATION_CONTEXT)

statisticsService = (StatisticsService ) ctx.getBean("statisticsService ")

see this blog - http://www.grailsbrains.com/availing-grails-goodies-in-srcjava-or-srcgroovy/