How to add a “non-mavenized” jar dependency to a grails project

Question

I\'m a grails newby. I am using grails 2.0.3 from the command line (no IDE) on windows 7.

I am just running the \'hello world\' example from the grails documentatio

Answer 1

if your jar is in lib folder and also entry in buildconfig.groovy and if you can't find jar in your build path then try to use below command.

grails compile --refresh-dependencies

Answer 2

Grails 2.0-2.2

Ok, I finally figured out what I need to do. Suppose my jar is named 'mylib.jar'. I need to rename it to mylib-1.0.jar and move it to the lib directory. Then I need to add the following to BuildConfig.groovy:

dependencies {
        // specify dependencies here under either 'build', 'compile', 'runtime', 'test' or 'provided' scopes eg.

        // runtime 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.16'
    runtime 'mylib:mylib:1.0'
    }

I guess that was obvious to everyone but me. Hope this helps someone else.

Grails 2.3-...

Just put a jar into the lib/. Do not modify BuildConfig.groovy (c) kaskelotti