GORM is almost certainly the greatest feature of Grails. I often find myself cursing the Hibernate Gods when I have to switch between Grails and Java. This example project was inspired because I wanted to use the GORM features in a simple Groovy standalone application. Dependency management for this application is handled by Gradle, and the Grails-related features are built on Grails v2.1.0 dependencies.
This application is a work of trickery... Essentially what this is doing is setting up a minimally required Grails application context for the GORM features to work.
I hate -- with a firey passion -- XML configuration files, so this application has an entirely annotation-driven Spring configuration. Additional configuration, like DataSource is consumed through Groovy's ConfigSlurper and incorporated into the application context in the same way that Grails would natively do this.
com.danveloper.gormish.Gormish is the runnable "test" class (for these purposes, it's just a proof-of-concept). Bean configuration is managed through com.danveloper.gormish.config.Configuration, and application context initialization is handled through com.danveloper.gormish.config.BootStrap#init
Free-for-all. Unless you're going to use it to spy on people. Then you can't use it. Contact me if you need help: g(daniel.p.woods@gmail.com) && t(@danveloper)
dan woods 2012.