Using Grails GORM standalone

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Using Grails GORM standalone

I'm currently wondering how it is possible to use the Groovy ORM Layer from Grails standalone outside of the Grails Framework. There is a Documentation Entry for doing so, but the ZIP file only links to an empty page. I downloaded Grails 1.2-M3 but I couldn't find anything in the docs either.

Does anybody know what the current state is and how to accomplish this?

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AFAIK it is possible to use GORM standalone since Grails 1.1. This allows you to use GORM as your ORM without using the full Grails framework

However, I don't think it's possible to use GORM outside of Spring (which is the foundation on which Grails is built). To summarise:

You can use GORM without using Grails
You cannot use GORM without using Spring

A sample application demonstrating how to use GORM outside Grails is available here. If you want to browse the source code of this example in a browser (instead of checking it out from the SVN repository), start here.

Don 2009-10-28 16:12:23

Thanks a lot. I stumbled across the newsgroup entry but wasn't sure if it is already outdated. I'm using Spring in the project anyway so that requirement is no problem at all.

Daff 2009-10-28 16:44:35

Please also see the 'Using GORM outside of Grails' (http://grails.org/GORM+-+StandAlone+Gorm) page on Grails Wiki.

binil 2009-11-25 22:38:45

As I mentioned in my question this page didn't really help, the link is broken and the information is outdated.

Daff 2010-01-08 10:51:33

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I don't know if this is too late, but this might help: http://www.integrallis.com/blog/tag/gorm

Rick 2010-03-01 15:36:13

Welcome to SO. I got it running a while ago but this seems like a good tutorial.

Daff 2010-03-01 17:36:29

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