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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 [...]

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 [...]

Context:

JSF application running on a Tomcat server

Symptoms:

When you try to access a resource in your appplication- you are greeted with a 404 error

Investigation

Check your error log.

If your exception trace is similar to one of the exceptions mentioned below mentioned below- you are missing one or both of these libraries: Commons-Digester or Commons- BeanUtils. (Note: You [...]