Hi,

I have been looking into Grails/Maven integration in the last couple of days, and I would like some feedback from real Maven users on a proposal:

* all Grails JAR files are deployed to Maven with corresponding POMs

* Maven/Gant integration so that Gant targets can be called from Maven and its plugins

* package Grails' Gant scripts into a JAR file that can be declared as a project dependency

* "grails create-app --maven" generates a pom.xml with the Grails dependencies included and the GMaven and Grails Maven plugins configured

* "mvn compile" uses GMaven and the standard Java compiler instead of delegating to "grails compile"

* Grails plugins declare their dependencies in Maven form (either as a pom.xml or in a Gant script)

* Grails Maven plugin hooks into standard build cycle and copies files into the correct location for the War plugin

I looked into a Grails archetype, but I can't really see a way of creating the Grails directory structure directly. So what I'm thinking of doing is having a simple archetype that installs a POM and then the user can run "mvn grails:initialize" or something like that to create the actual application files.

What do people think? Some of the feedback will go into issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-38

Cheers,

Peter