(Quick Reference)

package

Purpose

Runs the packaging phase of Grails' runtime. This is mainly useful when used by other scripts.

As an include:

includeTargets << new File ( "${grailsHome}/scripts/Package.groovy" )

As a command:

grails package

Usage:

grails package

When used as an include you need to supply the following at the top of your Gant script:

includeTargets << new File ( "${grailsHome}/scripts/Package.groovy" )

Once this is in place there are a number of useful commands that can be re-used:

loadPlugins - Loads all of the Grails plug-ins and creates the GrailsPluginManager instance
generateWebXml - Generates the Grails web.xml deployment descriptor
generateLog4j - Generates the Grails log4j properties file
packageApp - Calls all of the above 3 targets in the appropriate order

Typically packageApp is the most useful as it performs all the necessary packaging steps