grails plugin repositories

Question

By default, the following repositories are configured in BuildConfig.groovy

repositories {
    grailsPlugins()
    grailsHome()    // look inside the grails installation
    grailsCentral()
}

I understand that the grailsHome() repository corresponds to the JARs that are available within the local Grails installation, and I guess grailsPlugins() corresponds to the repository where released Grails plugins are stored.

Am I right about these two, and if so, what is grailsCentral()?

Answer 1

As I understand it;

grailsPlugins() looks inside the ~/.grails/version directory

grailsHome() (as you suspected) looks inside the Grails installation directory

grailsCentral() looks to be using the grails subversion repository

Answer 2

Here's exactly where it is looks for

• grailsPlugins() - Looks for jars inside /lib directory of each installed plugin. (See GrailsPluginsDirectoryResolver)
• grailsHome() - Looks inside the GRAILS-HOME/lib directory
• grailsCentral() - Looks at http://grails.org/plugins