Changing port for Google App Engine while using grails

The context

I am using Google App Engine using the  Grails AppEngine plugin . The default port is 8080, but I needed to run it on a different port.

It was easy to figure out that Google App Engine supports running the development server on any configured port. But it took me some time to realize that [...]

Configuring Grails with Oracle

Grails quick-start example is a neat way to start off with Grails.

It will show you how to connect to HSQLDB and gets a quick and elementary web app up and running in no time.

But soon, I wanted to get on with the “real” stuff- Oracle

These are the changes I did to connect with Oracle (and [...]

Getting started with grails

Today I installed Grails on my work laptop.

And then set to try the quick-start example.

I soon ran into a problem when I tried to create my application using the command

grails create-app MyApp

I got the following error

The syntax of the command is incorrect

I spent some time trying to debug the grails.bat file - but soon fell [...]