With Grails there are several ways to do the same thing.
Finds all of domain class instances:
Book.findAll() Book.getAll() Book.list()
AFAIK, these are all identical
These will return the same results
Book.findById(1) Book.get(1)
but get(id) will use the cache (if enabled), so should be preferred to findById(1)
get(id)
findById(1)