We learned from Graeme Rocher, the leader fo the Grails project himself, that there is a new useful plugin that joins the vast set of available plugins: the Terracotta plugin for Grails.

Our busy community of plugin developers have been at it again and now there is a brand new plugin for Grails that adds support for the Terracotta data grid. It was always possible to do this with a bit of manual configuration, but now the plugin automates things nicely using a few new Grails command line scripts.

This is one of the really great things about Grails and Groovy, because Groovy classes are just standard Java classes it is possible to integrate Groovy or Grails applications with any existing Java infrastructure, including data grids like Terracotta and Coherence. Awesome stuff.

Terracotta is a Java infrastructure that allows you to scale your application by clustering JVMs. The author of the plugin (Vincent Jorrand) notes that while clustering is available in production mode it is not on development mode, but it may be available soon.

Tags: Graeme Rocher, Grails, Plugin